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PALATINATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A territory under the jurisdiction of a count palatine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("palatinate" is a kind of...):
district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine
Synonyms:
Palatinate; Pfalz
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)
Holonyms ("Palatinate" is a part of...):
Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)
