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Graf

1

[ graf, grahf ]

noun

  1. Stephanie Maria Steffi, born 1969, German tennis player.


Graf

2

[ grahf ]

noun

, German.
, plural Graf·en [grah, -f, uh, n].
  1. a count: a title of nobility in Germany, Austria, and Sweden, equivalent in rank to an English earl.

Graf

1

/ ɡraːf /

noun

  1. a German count: often used as a title


Graf

2

/ ɡræf /

noun

  1. GrafSteffi1969FGermanSPORT AND GAMES: tennis player Steffi. born 1969, German tennis player: won 22 Grand Slam singles titles (1987–99), including seven at Wimbledon; won (1988) a unique 'golden slam' of each Grand Slam singles title and a gold medal in the women's singles at the Olympics

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Graf1

German, from Old High German grāvo

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Example Sentences

I suspect that Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen wrote that first graf very, very carefully.

Here's one graf: The Woodward reporting has caused the White House spin machine to sputter at a crucial time.

But they were always understood to be part of the solution, as the authors acknowledge in the second graf I quote.

Well, that last graf is pretty rich, given what we now know.

But of course, the things I cited in the above graf are "facts," and conservatives kind of have a problem with those.

Daughter of Gustav Graf and wife of the portrait painter, Lepsius.

After a good deal of delay, Maimon was at last induced to call upon the Graf at his residence in Berlin.

Scholars are now almost unanimously agreed that the internal features are best explained by the Graf-Wellhausen hypothesis.

Graf von Piccolomini, an active gallant person, had refused terms, some time before; and was hopefully intent on doing his best.

Perigraph, per′i-graf, n. an inaccurate delineation of anything.

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