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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

ducado

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ducado

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Duchy/ˈdʌtʃi/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #8500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O antigo ducado era governado com mão de ferro."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The territory, domain, or rank of a duke or duchess.

    "The historic duchy spanned across the fertile river valley and was fiercely independent."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old French 'ducie', stemming from medieval Latin 'ducatus', meaning the territory, dominion, or rank of a duke. The term dates back to the feudal systems of medieval Europe where sovereign or noble territories were governed by a duke.

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