Graf

[ graf, grahf ]

/ græf, grɑf /

noun

Stephanie MariaSteffi,born 1969, German tennis player.

Definition for graf (2 of 2)

Graf ²

[ grahf ]

/ grɑf /

noun, plural Graf·en [grah-fuh n] /ˈgrɑ fən/. German.

a count: a title of nobility in Germany, Austria, and Sweden, equivalent in rank to an English earl.

Example sentences from the Web for graf

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

Bob Woodward and Politico and the Worst of Washington |Michael Tomasky |February 28, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
But they were always understood to be part of the solution, as the authors acknowledge in the second graf I quote.

Bob Woodward and Politico and the Worst of Washington |Michael Tomasky |February 28, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Some of you took the word "fight" too literally in the sixth graf of the post below.

InLightened--Really, You're Smarter Than This |Michael Tomasky |September 13, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
UPDATE: In the first graf, I originally had 500,000 instead of 3.5 million.

Alexander Cockburn, 1941-2012 |Michael Tomasky |July 22, 2012 |DAILY BEAST

I like that second graf especially, because it is an entirely market-based, unsentimental case for government.

An Article That Made Me Sad, and a Little Response to Readers |Michael Tomasky |June 12, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
When they came they made the very room smell, and the Graf in disgust ordered wine.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 29. August, 1873. |Various
Graf Kuffstein, himself a convert from Lutheranism, was commissioned by the Emperor to urge his desires on the young prisoner.

Rupert Prince Palatine |Eva Scott
Surely the present Graf has not collected all these instruments!

The First Violin |Jessie Fothergill
This is also the view of Graf, Nldeke, Cornill, and many others.

The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel |F. W. Farrar
Nearly two hundred men handled it and stood around until the Graf arrived.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 |Various

British Dictionary definitions for graf (1 of 2)

Graf ¹

/ (ɡræf) /

noun

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

British Dictionary definitions for graf (2 of 2)

Graf ²

/ German (ɡraːf) /

noun plural Grafen (ˈɡraːfən)

a German count: often used as a title

Word Origin for Graf

German, from Old High German grāvo

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Graf

noun

Definition for graf (2 of 2)

noun, plural Graf·en [grah-fuh n] /ˈgrɑ fən/. German.

Example sentences from the Web for graf

British Dictionary definitions for graf (1 of 2)

noun

British Dictionary definitions for graf (2 of 2)

noun plural Grafen (ˈɡraːfən)

Word Origin for Graf