grand duchess

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Noun

grand duchess (plural grand duchesses)

1. The wife or widow of a grand duke.
2. (proscribed) The wife of a grand prince.
3. A daughter or granddaughter of a sovereign (czar or later emperor) of the Russian Empire or a pretender to the throne thereof.

Related terms

• grandducal
• grand duchy
• grand princess
• archduchess

Translations

grand duke’s consort

• Arabic: غْرَانْدُوقَة f (ḡrāndūqa)
• Czech: velkovévodkyně f
• Danish: storhertuginde c (Luxembourg, German states and Western Europe), storfyrstinde c (Lithuania, Moscow and tsarist Finland)
• Dutch: groothertogin (nl) f
• Finnish: suuriruhtinatar
• French: grande-duchesse (fr) f
• German: Großherzogin f
• Latvian: lielhercogiene f
• Ottoman Turkish: غراندوشس (grandüşes)
• Persian: گراندوشس (gerândušes)
• Thai: แกรนด์ดัชเชส (grɛɛn-dát-chés)
• Turkish: grandüşes

(grand)daughter of a Russian czar or emperor

• Czech: velkokněžna f
• Danish: storfyrstinde c
• Dutch: groothertogin (nl) f
• Finnish: suuriruhtinatar
• French: grande-duchesse (fr) f
• German: Großherzogin f
• Russian: вели́кая княжна́ (ru) f (velíkaja knjažná)
• Thai: แกรนด์ดัชเชส (grɛɛn-dát-chés)