duke
Speech parts
1. duke - Noun
2. duke - Verb
3. Duke - Proper noun
Meaning
A leader; a chief; a prince.
In England, one of the highest order of nobility after princes and princesses of the royal blood and the four archbishops of England and Ireland.
In some European countries, a sovereign prince, without the title of king.
To play the duke.
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There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.
I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.
A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.
It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time. And the duke was called the duke of Tintagil.
To forgive a duke his tyranny alters not the total situation.