English

Alternative forms

• stadholderate

Noun

stadtholderate ‎(plural stadtholderates)

1. The office or position of a stadtholder.
   • 1938, CV Wedgwood, The Thirty Years War, NYRB 2005, p. 194:

     On his deathbed he sent for his younger half-brother, Frederic Henry, the prince who would undoubtedly succeed him in the stadholderate of five provinces and the command of the army.

2. A state ruled by a stadtholder.