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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dukedom
noun
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▪ John Howard received his dukedom, supported Richard against rebels later the same year, and died with him at Bosworth.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dukedom

Dukedom \Duke"dom\, n.

  1. The territory of a duke.

  2. The title or dignity of a duke.
    --Shak.

Wiktionary
dukedom

n. 1 A region ruled by a duke or duchess; a duchy. 2 The rank or title of a duke.

WordNet
dukedom
  1. n. the dignity or rank or position of a duke

  2. the domain controlled by a duke or duchess [syn: duchy]

Wikipedia
Dukedom

Dukedom may refer to:

  • the title and office of a duke
  • duchy, the territory ruled by a duke
Dukedom (game)

Dukedom is a turn-based strategy computer game about land management and was created as an expanded version of Hamurabi.

Usage examples of "dukedom".

Our fair dukedom spans some ten leagues along the foot of the mountains.

Stanwin loved his dukedom and his people, but he loved freedom most of all.

And to the dukedom and the people, who will see history made here in the next few weeks!

I can help the dukedom up here, unlike some people who can only fall out of bed and hit their empty heads.

He called in the steward of the grounds, and farmers from the far reaches of the dukedom, even a shepherdess to ask about caves in the hillsides!

Even more than lords and ladies who spend their days ministering justice or hunting hawks or, like Young Stanwin, riding the far reaches of the dukedom tending the flocks!

Chago would never go so far as to call the Qirsi his friend, but he had paid the man handsomely, relied on his counsel without hesitation, and trusted him with the well-being of his dukedom, the safety of his family, and his own life.

Kentigern several turns back, the dukedom had passed to Rowan, an unproven and unimpressive youth.

He offered this as a lesson in leading the dukedom, but Brail knew that it applied with equal force to ruling an entire kingdom.

My father has refused thus far, so you thought to learn where I stand, knowing that eventually the dukedom will be mine.

During the course of a single turn I see peddlers and merchants from almost every dukedom in every kingdom in the Forelands.

One particularly severe outbreak two centuries ago had killed over half the people in the entire dukedom in a single waning.

All in the dukedom were invited into Galdasten Castle to partake of a meal that was unequaled by any other.

But on nights like these, when Leilia could claim the duke as her own before all the dukedom, Keziah- envied the duchess.

He was one of the younger Qirsi, the underministers, as they were called, though in truth any first minister in any dukedom in Eibithar would have gladly surrendered his or her place to be one of them.