county palatine

1. 1.

   the territory of a count palatine

   Broaderadministrative district

Questions about county palatine

What does county palatine mean?

county palatine means "the territory of a count palatine".

Is county palatine a common word?

county 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.