graf

Graf is a historical German noble title equal in rank to a count (derived from the Latin Comes, with a history of its own) or a British earl (an Anglo-Saxon title akin to the Viking title Jarl). A derivation ultimately from the Greek verb graphein 'to write' may be fanciful: Paul the Deacon wrote in Latin ca 790: "the count of the Bavarians that they call gravio who governed Bauzanum and other strongholds…" (Historia gentis Langobardorum, V.xxxvi); this may be read to make the term a Germanic one, but by then using Latin terms was quite common.
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Noun
1. German tennis player who won seven women's singles titles at Wimbledon (born in 1969)
(synonym) Steffi Graf, Stephanie Graf
(hypernym) tennis player

n. count, European nobleman, earl, British nobleman

n. grave, tomb, sepulchre, place where a person or thing is buried

(n.)
A German title of nobility, equivalent to earl in English, or count in French. See Earl.