duke

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duke /djuːk $ duːk/ noun [countable]  PGOa man with the highest social rank outside the royal family 公爵 → duchess the Duke of Norfolk 诺福克公爵

Examples from the Corpus

duke• But his heir, the present duke, no longer holds pole position.• The king gave the duke the rights to more than 1,000 hectares of forested land near the battlefield.• It followed that Northumberland's men were in a sense Gloucester's men, even though the duke could not retain them directly.• Albeit for different reasons, Boris Yeltsin knows what the duke meant.• The duke therefore had to be satisfied with rather less permanent methods of limiting the Woodvilles' power.• There was a particularly promising yarn about a young duke, and Tavett liked a high count of dukes in the column.Origin duke (1100-1200) Old French duc, from Latin dux “leader”, from ducere “to lead”

duke nounChinese  

with the social highest the outside man rank Corpus a

Duke

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Duke, David
(1950–) a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, who tried to win a seat in the US Senate in the 1990s

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Duke, Dor‧is /ˈdɒrəs, ˈdɒrɪs $ ˈdɔː-/
(1912–1993) a rich American woman who travelled a lot and collected Islamic and Southeast Asian art. When she died, she left most of her money and her art to the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

duke
duke /djuːk $ duːk/ noun [countable]a man with the highest social rank outside the royal family ⇨ duchess:
    the Duke of Norfolk