archduke
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of archduke
1520–30; earlier archeduke < French archeduc (now archiduc ). See arch- 1, duke
Example Sentences
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Something like this happened when Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026
The 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo was long ago and far away, its participants and empires now a hazy history.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2023
In 1995, he married Baroness Maria Theresia von Gudenus — whose father had been Austrian ambassador to the Holy See and whose mother, a descendant of Archduke Johann of Austria, was Hungarian.
From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2023
But all of Archduke Eduard’s aw-shucks baroque kitsch cannot obscure the fact that all the modern horrors that Habsburg laments, from Protestantism and capitalism to secularism and mass democracy, were birthed on his family’s watch.
From Slate • Apr. 21, 2023
Crowds lined the parade route, waiting to catch a glimpse of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the imperial throne of Austria-Hungary, seat of the thousand-year-old Hapsburg Empire.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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