Home › Words › L › landgravelandgravelandgrave means A surname.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, landgrave ranks #2,710 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom German Landgraf, itself from Land (“land, territory, principality”) + Graf (“count”), from *grafa (“military rank”), from Latin graphio. More at graft.nameA surname.nounOne holding a specific nobiliary title ranking as count in certain feudal countships in the Holy Roman Empire, in present Germany.County nobleman in the British, privately held North American colony Carolina, ranking just below the proprietary (chartered equivalent of a royal vassal).Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.landgraviate 72% match — The office or jurisdiction of a landgrave vs landgrave →waldgrave 63% match — The head forestkeeper, or nobleman who held some power in forested areas, in the Holy Roman Empire, now Germany. vs landgrave →margrave 62% match — A feudal era military-administrative officer of comital rank in the Carolingian empire and some successor states, originally in charge of a border area. vs landgrave →burgrave 62% match — The military governor of a town or castle in the Middle Ages, especially in German-speaking Europe; a nobleman of the same status. vs landgrave →pfalzgraf 62% match — A German representative of the Frankish king (or, later, the Holy Roman Emperor), in a palatial domain of the crown; a count palatine. vs landgrave →palsgrave 61% match — A count palatinate of the Holy Roman Empire, possessing near-royal powers within his county. vs landgrave →margravate 60% match — The status or rank of a margrave. vs landgrave →burgraviate 58% match — The territory of a burgrave. vs landgrave →