principality

noun

prin·ci·pal·i·ty ˌprin(t)-sə-ˈpa-lə-tē

plural principalities

Synonyms of principality next

: the state, office, or authority of a prince

: the position or responsibilities of a principal (as of a school)

: the territory or jurisdiction of a prince : the country that gives title to a prince

principalities plural : an order of angels see celestial hierarchy

Examples of principality in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Credit: Avon Impulse Need to escape to a fictional principality for the world? —

Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 May 2023 After sporting clown noses last weekend for the circus festival, Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella joined others in sporting festive scarves — Jacques in a blue design and Gabriella in a wool accessory featuring the principality's red and white colors with a centennial image of Prince Rainier. —

Peter Mikelbank, Peoplemag, 22 Jan. 2024 To celebrate the Prince, who created the festival, an open-air circus parade — one of the largest in modern days — will march across the principality, starting from the palace. —

Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 1 Jan. 2024 With National Day falling on a Sunday this year, mass was augmented with elements of the Monaco Symphony, as well as clarions from the principality's Carabinieri orchestra. —

Peter Mikelbank, Peoplemag, 19 Nov. 2023 Following cocktails, guests dined beneath the gallery frescoes, which usually greet gamblers playing roulette, and the evening ended at the principality's Opera House, where guests enjoyed the very rare privilege of dancing on the theater's stage. Can't get enough of PEOPLE's Royals coverage? —

Peter Mikelbank, Peoplemag, 21 Oct. 2023 The Horde controlled a gigantic territory that extended from Central Asia to eastern Europe and included Russian principalities and Siberia. —

Marie Favereau, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021 In a separate interview from his home in the tiny European principality of Monaco, McLaughlin laughed with delight when told of Hussain’s memories of that 1975 Long Island concert. —

George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2023 In 1876, the principalities of Serbia and Montenegro declared a war of independence against the Ottoman Empire. —

Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023

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