Palatinate

American  

[puh-lat-n-eyt, -it] / pəˈlæt nˌeɪt, -ɪt /

noun

1. the Palatinate, either of two historic regions of Germany that constituted an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire: one Lower Palatinate, or Rhine Palatinate is now part of Rhineland-Palatinate and the other Upper Palatinate is now part of Bavaria.

2. a native or inhabitant of the Palatinate.

3. palatinate, the territory under the jurisdiction of a palatine.

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Palatinate ¹ British  

/ pəˈlætɪnɪt /

noun

1. German name: Pfalz.  either of two territories in SW Germany, once ruled by the counts palatine. Upper Palatinate is now in Bavaria; Lower or Rhine Palatinate is now in Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, and Hesse

2. a native or inhabitant of the Palatinate

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palatinate ² British  

/ pəˈlætɪnɪt /

noun

1. a territory ruled by a palatine prince or noble or count palatine

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Other Word Forms

• palatinal adjective

Etymology

Origin of Palatinate

First recorded in 1570–80; palatine ¹ + -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Among those arrested were four people in Bavaria, 15 in North Rhine-Westphalia, and 10 in the southwestern German state of Rhineland Palatinate, and police seized potential evidence at dozens of locations including homes and offices.

From Reuters • May 3, 2023

Emily Doughty, editor of student newspaper Palatinate, told BBC Radio Newcastle that prices had upped "massively" and she had heard of a case where £85 per week accommodation was going for £189 per week.

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2022

From here she can make out the sounds of helicopters nearing Ramstein Air Base, the U.S. military outpost in the hills of the Palatinate Forest.

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2022

The wandervogels, literally hiking birds, made it a hiking destination and, generations later, Germans still come to mountain bike, hike and mushroom-hunt in the boar-infested woods of the nearby Palatinate forest.

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2018

This they did later, beginning in 1808, when, under Napoleon, the Palatinate became the Department of Mont Tenn�rre and part of France.

From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Straus, Oscar S.