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PRINCIPALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does principality mean? 

PRINCIPALITY (noun)
  The noun PRINCIPALITY has 1 sense:

1. territory ruled by a princeplay

  Familiarity information: PRINCIPALITY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PRINCIPALITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Territory ruled by a prince

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

princedom; principality

Hypernyms ("principality" is a kind of...):

demesne; domain; land (territory over which rule or control is exercised)

Instance hyponyms:

Cambria; Cymru; Wales (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria)

Monaco; Principality of Monaco (a constitutional monarchy in a tiny enclave on the French Riviera)

Muscovy (a Russian principality in the 13th to 16th centuries; Moscow was the capital)


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