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
His paternal grandfather, Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria, fled Hungary in 1944, leading his own father to grow up in exile and speak English at home with his German mother.
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
He thought of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated in 1914.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
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