Definitions for principality

principality prin·ci·pal·i·ty

Spelling: [prin-suh-pal-i-tee]
IPA: /ˌprɪn səˈpæl ɪ ti/

Principality is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 535 anagrams from letters in principality (aciiilnpprty).

Definitions for principality

noun

  1. a state ruled by a prince, usually a relatively small state or a state that falls within a larger state such as an empire.
  2. the position or authority of a prince or chief ruler; sovereignty; supreme power.
  3. the rule of a prince of a small or subordinate state.
  4. the Principality, British. Wales.
  5. principalities, Theology. an order of angels. Compare angel (def 1). supramundane powers often in conflict with God. Ephes. 6:12.
  6. Obsolete. preeminence.

Origin of principality

1300-50; Middle English principalite Old French Late Latin prīncipālitās first place, superiority (Medieval Latin: authority or territory of a prince). See principal

Examples for principality

In 1967 the principality of Sealand was declared on a military sea fort floating in what was then international waters.

And so you have come back to find that your principality does not exist.

Somebody had persuaded him to believe that I was urging the Bey to close the principality to him.

It is the border of the principality and the passage of it is forbidden.

On Sept. 2, 1967, full independence was declared and the principality of Sealand was born.

Beauty was everywhere, and in portions of the great forest, great as a principality, quiet.

In his life of turmoil and bloodshed he had halted to secure for her the right to a principality.

What happens when an American multinational turns a tiny European principality into a fake war zone?

By the same art he would prognosticate a principality to a scoundrel.

The night before Halloween, the Redmond-based company descended on the 62-square-mile central European principality.

Word Value for principality
Scrable

21

Words with friends

25

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