say it: MAHR-grayv
margrave is a noun meaning "the military governor of a frontier province in medieval Germany". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the military governor of a frontier province in medieval Germany
a German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess)
Germany
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for margrave come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.