count palatine

1. 1.

   a count who exercised royal authority in his own domain

   Broadercount

Questions about count palatine

What does count palatine mean?

count palatine means "a count who exercised royal authority in his own domain".

Is count palatine a common word?

count palatine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.