Definitions for Duke

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Duke duke

Spelling: [dook, dyook]

IPA: /duk, dyuk/

Duke is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in Duke (deku).

Definitions for Duke

noun

1. (in Continental Europe) the male ruler of a duchy; the sovereign of a small state.
2. a British nobleman holding the highest hereditary title outside the royal family, ranking immediately below a prince and above a marquis; a member of the highest rank of the British peerage.
3. a nobleman of corresponding rank in certain other countries.
4. a cultivated hybrid of the sweet and sour cherry.
5. dukes, Slang. fists; hands:
6. Benjamin Newton, 1855–1929, and his brother, James Buchanan, 1856–1925, U.S. industrialists.
7. a male given name.
8. Anthony ("Mad Anthony") 1745–96, American Revolutionary War general.
9. John (Marion Michael Morrison"Duke") 1907–79, U.S. film actor.
10. a township in N New Jersey.
11. a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
12. a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “wagonmaker.”.
13. Edward Kennedy ("Duke") 1899–1974, U.S. jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor.

Idioms

1. duke it out, to fight, especially with the fists; do battle:

verb (used with object)

1. Slang. to hit or thrash with the fists (sometimes followed by out):

Origin of Duke

1100-50; Middle English duke, duc, late Old English duc Old French duc, dus, dux Medieval Latin dux hereditary ruler of a small state, Latin: leader; see dux; dukes “f

Examples for Duke

But after winning 55 percent of the white vote, duke had a database of supporters some politicians coveted.

Shakespeare was almost as well content, it appears, to play the lover as to play the duke.

“I did not contribute to him, he did not contribute to me,” duke said.

Not only the duke, but both the heroines, Viola and Olivia, love music.

The tidings reached the duke, at his hunting-lodge of Valognes.

duke was a state representative whose neo-Nazi alliances were disgorged in media reports during his run for governor in 1991.

The duke wanted a capable candidate to help him regain his ascendency.

Scalise never would have spoken to EURO had duke been there in person.

The “doctorate” duke claims is from an anti-Semitic Ukranian “diploma mill” as described by the State Department.

He came recommended by no claim in the world except the will of the duke.