princedom
- n the dignity or rank or position of a prince
- n territory ruled by a prince
- Rumania, once a mere princedom attached to the Sultanate of Turkey, won independence and the rank of Kingdom under her first Bratianu Premier, famed Ion (John) the Great in 1881.
- The pretty princedom of Monaco, the center of Europe's playboy country, has now become the central redoubt of Protestant evangelism.
- Charles rewarded him with a huge mastiff and then a princedom "for the dog to run in.