BARON
\bˈaɹən], \bˈaɹən], \b_ˈa_ɹ_ə_n]\
Definitions of BARON
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount.
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A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife.
By Oddity Software
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A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount.
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A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A title of rank next above a baronet and below a viscount, being the lowest in the House of Peers: a title of certain judges: in feudal times, the peers or great lords of the realm.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A peer; a title or degree of nobility, the lowest in the British peerage; a judge of the Exchequer; a husband, as, baron and femme, husband and wife. A baron of beef, two sirloins not cut asunder. Barons of the Cinque Ports, those members of the House of Commons formerly elected by the Cinque Ports.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Gothic , Anglo-Saxon] In England the lowest title of nobility ; one who ranks between a viscount and baronet.
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A degree of nobility next to a viscount; Baron is one of the judges in the court of exchequer; there are also barons of the cinque ports, that have places in the lower house of parliament; Baron is used in law for the husband in relation to his wife.
By Thomas Sheridan
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