duke
/duːk/ noun C1- The male ruler of a duchy (female equivalent: duchess).
- The sovereign of a small state.
- A high title of nobility; the male holder of a dukedom.
- A grand duke.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genera Bassarona and Dophla.
- A fist. · Put up your dukes!
Plural dukes
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“And makes you resemble the Prince of Wales or the Duke of Reichstadt.”
His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been to Eton and Oxford.
It happened that at the moment I was clearing up the case which my friend Watson has described as that of the Abbey School, in which the Duke of Greyminster was so deeply involved.
“Well, my dear duke,” replied Louis XVIII., “I think you are wrongly informed, and know positively that, on the contrary, it is very fine weather in that direction.” Man of ability as he was, Louis XVIII.
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