Definition of baron in English:

baron

noun ˈbar(ə)nˈbɛrən

1A member of the lowest order of the British nobility. Baron is not used as a form of address, barons usually being referred to as ‘Lord’.
男爵（英国贵族制度中最低的一级，不用作称呼，一般以Lord相称）
Example sentencesExamples
- They are being sold by Manorial Auctioneers of London on behalf of Lord Hothfield, a Cumbrian-based baron whose lineage stretches back to the middle ages.
- Her ancestors and relatives include a variety of dukes and barons and her maternal grandmother, Pandora Jones, was a god-daughter of the Duke of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII.
- Osyth's father, like any responsible aristocrat, consults his barons and arranges a suitable marriage for his daughter in accordance with their advice.
- John said he bought the titles to stop them falling in to foreign hands but would not be calling himself a baron.
- Henry III infuriated the barons by favouring foreigners over his own nobility.
- The building had been around since the end of eighteenth century, planned by Lord Radcliffe, an English baron, who also was one of the first settlers of Greenwood.
- Attendants of an earl, viscount or baron wore six rows of curls on state wigs and five on house wigs.
- The castles of the rebellious barons were razed and the nobles never challenged the duke's power again.
- Marlborough prospered after Charles's victory over the Exclusionists in 1681, becoming a baron in the Scots peerage and colonel of the Royal Dragoons.
- Beyond that, there were 10,000 further titles of nobility (chiefs, chieftains, feudal barons and lairds), so that one Scot in 45 belonged to a noble house.
- Dukes, duchesses, and barons made up the nobility, while the gentry consisted of knights and lords.
- At the college balls held each summer, the female companion of an Old Harrovian or Etonian would, in all probability, be the daughter of a baron or a duke, wrapped in the best silk.
- At the funeral of Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1792, his body was borne to its resting place in St Paul's Cathedral by no less than three dukes, two marquesses, three earls, a viscount and a baron.
- There is an evident resemblance between those barons who humiliated King John and the Whig magnates who invited William of Orange to usurp the throne.
- In the center of the crowds of barons and knights under the king, was Johnathan Steevens.
- Most of the barons and lords that went up against Arthur, and lost, ended up as his knights and governing heads.
- In the summer of 1306, bishops and barons and knights from all around England left their country manors and villages and journeyed to London.
- From the Magna Carta, English princes and barons made it clear to the royal crown that they had rights and this ideal became rooted in English custom.
- They all sat in a row, ranged according to their rank - kings and princes and dukes and earls and counts and barons and knights.
- Well, you see, the lords and barons swore their oath to make the king sign the Magna Carta at Bury St Edmunds.
Synonyms
noble, nobleman, aristocrat, peer, lord
1. 1.1 A member of a foreign nobility having a rank similar to that of a British baron.
  Example sentencesExamples
  But as long as I was still a baroness and he a baron, we would have to convince everyone around us that life was perfect.
  She was also introduced to several lords, dukes and soon to be counts and barons, who were her age.
  Even now I hardly care who it is whether it be a baron, a duke, an earl, or a lowly serf.
  The previous baron and baroness retired, and so a new baron and baroness were created by the king.
  But with the aid of a meddling foreign country, the rebellious and discontent barons of that upper part of the country succeeded in receding from Palasar to create their own kingdom.
  He pictured the rulers of the countries of the world meeting at the annual Nomari, and countless trembling presidents, kings, barons, and prime ministers declaring him Emperor of Lothos.
  ‘There is one more thing, baron,’ the Advisor continued.
  He had to swear an oath to the baron, duke or earl, collect taxes when told to do so and provide soldiers from his land when they were needed.
  She was much sweeter than Selina, but still was not good with people (except rich princes, counts, dukes, and barons who came to court her).
  The action centres around a 20-year-old woman who has two loves in life - diamonds and furs - and two lovers - a baron and a maharaja - who provide them.
  In short, the great barons ran Germany, or rather, each baron ran his particular corner of it.
  In pretending to be a baron and a countess, the pair pokes fun at rigid class structures and upper-crust, titled society.
  Today's Kings pay off barons so that the barons will let them retain their thrones.
  What would you expect from a man whose ancestors were barons and dukes?
  I love going to court parties, but they are rarely formal, and are only for lesser barons and countesses, not official King's court balls.
  The duke gave these back out to those loyal to him, transforming his barons into an aristocracy that was loyal to him.
  In the Papal States, the urban nobilities and feudal barons were subject, at least in name, to clerical officials appointed by their overlord the Pope.
  Lords and ladies, dukes and barons, deep in conversation awaited the arrival of King Alexander.
  During this period, Malta was sold and resold to various feudal lords and barons and was dominated successively by the rulers of Swabia, Aquitaine, Aragon, Castile, and Spain.
  ‘Your Highness,’ the baron bowed to the duke, stepping aside.
2. 1.2historical A person who held lands or property from the sovereign or a powerful overlord.
  〈史〉（由君主或最高统治者册封土地或财产的）贵族
  Example sentencesExamples
  Some two hundred Norman barons took the land of over four thousand Anglo-Saxon lords, many of whom were exiled or killed.
  Because they had sworn an oath to their lord, it was taken for granted that they had sworn a similar oath to the duke, earl or baron who owned that lord's property.
  Knights and barons who had formerly controlled their own armies now took orders from the King.
  Her parents were a baron and baroness and they had an older son as well that was to inherit the fief.
  He gave fiefs to Norman lords, trying to keep the Saxon barons from becoming too strong.
  Synonyms
  ruler, sovereign, lord, overlord, dynast, leader, monarch, crowned head
2with modifier An important or powerful person in a specified business or industry.
（行业）巨头，大王
a press baron
报业巨头。
Example sentencesExamples
- For instance the Irish linen industry arose because British textile barons successfully lobbied to kill the Irish cotton industry.
- Happy is the press baron whose political and business interests work hand in hand - or fist in glove.
- He is contemptuous of press barons such as Lord Beaverbrook, who ran ‘the Daily Express merely for the purpose of making propaganda’.
- In one delightful sequence, Bertie urges Churchill to form a new government, but asks that he leave newspaper baron Lord Beaverbrook out of it.
- Sugar barons appoint their cronies or family members as chairpersons and directors.
- All three categories, then - moguls, barons, and stars - existed before such modern mass media as film and radio; all three categories also exist more widely in business and other spheres.
- Of course the British and the mining barons didn't want to use these materials, and people like Milner didn't want the prefabricated look, so the answer was an architect who could appreciate what was needed.
- Somehow reorder the world so that drugs would be treated in the same way as fags - legal but educated against - and the drugs lords and narcotics barons would lose their power.
- Jay Gould, the railroad baron, ordered sets of photographs and a Gerome album from Knoedler.
- A railroad baron then donated his property on Nob Hill for a diocesan cathedral.
- All the British press barons have big investments in the United States.
- The annihilator of the hereditary peers has succumbed to the trade union barons.
- Since the stock market started to falter, more and more people have been having a go at becoming property barons.
- The cattle barons dominated because without property rights the biggest operations gained all the competitive advantage.
- Such service has ensured the custom of royal families, business barons and assorted celebrities over decades of dealing with the rich and famous.
- The New York Times reports that the pharmaceutical barons are the most powerful lobby in Washington.
- British and American media barons battled it out, with television broadcasting and production representing the modern Plains of Abraham and the Yanks acting as unrepentant victors.
- But in February 2004, newspaper baron Lord Conrad Black of Crossharbour received an unusually explicit judicial whipping.
- Our heroine goes in search of the fabled Pandora's Box in order to stop a bio-weapons baron opening it up.
- It's known for hot tempers, drug lords and timber barons, none of which you want to mess with.
Synonyms
magnate, tycoon, mogul, captain of industry, nabob, grandee, mandarin
industrialist, proprietor, entrepreneur, executive, chief, leader
informal big shot, bigwig, honcho
North American informal big wheel
derogatory fat cat

Origin

Middle English: from Old French, from medieval Latin baro, baron- 'man, warrior', probably of Germanic origin.

Rhymes

Aran, Arran, barren, Darren, Karen, Sharon, yarran

Definition of baron in US English:

baron

nounˈbɛrənˈberən

1A member of the lowest order of the British nobility. The term “Baron” is not used as a form of address in Britain, barons usually being referred to as “Lord.”.
男爵（英国贵族制度中最低的一级，不用作称呼，一般以Lord相称）
Example sentencesExamples
- Attendants of an earl, viscount or baron wore six rows of curls on state wigs and five on house wigs.
- In the summer of 1306, bishops and barons and knights from all around England left their country manors and villages and journeyed to London.
- The castles of the rebellious barons were razed and the nobles never challenged the duke's power again.
- John said he bought the titles to stop them falling in to foreign hands but would not be calling himself a baron.
- Marlborough prospered after Charles's victory over the Exclusionists in 1681, becoming a baron in the Scots peerage and colonel of the Royal Dragoons.
- In the center of the crowds of barons and knights under the king, was Johnathan Steevens.
- Osyth's father, like any responsible aristocrat, consults his barons and arranges a suitable marriage for his daughter in accordance with their advice.
- Her ancestors and relatives include a variety of dukes and barons and her maternal grandmother, Pandora Jones, was a god-daughter of the Duke of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII.
- Well, you see, the lords and barons swore their oath to make the king sign the Magna Carta at Bury St Edmunds.
- There is an evident resemblance between those barons who humiliated King John and the Whig magnates who invited William of Orange to usurp the throne.
- Most of the barons and lords that went up against Arthur, and lost, ended up as his knights and governing heads.
- At the funeral of Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1792, his body was borne to its resting place in St Paul's Cathedral by no less than three dukes, two marquesses, three earls, a viscount and a baron.
- Henry III infuriated the barons by favouring foreigners over his own nobility.
- Beyond that, there were 10,000 further titles of nobility (chiefs, chieftains, feudal barons and lairds), so that one Scot in 45 belonged to a noble house.
- At the college balls held each summer, the female companion of an Old Harrovian or Etonian would, in all probability, be the daughter of a baron or a duke, wrapped in the best silk.
- From the Magna Carta, English princes and barons made it clear to the royal crown that they had rights and this ideal became rooted in English custom.
- The building had been around since the end of eighteenth century, planned by Lord Radcliffe, an English baron, who also was one of the first settlers of Greenwood.
- They all sat in a row, ranged according to their rank - kings and princes and dukes and earls and counts and barons and knights.
- They are being sold by Manorial Auctioneers of London on behalf of Lord Hothfield, a Cumbrian-based baron whose lineage stretches back to the middle ages.
- Dukes, duchesses, and barons made up the nobility, while the gentry consisted of knights and lords.
Synonyms
noble, nobleman, aristocrat, peer, lord
1. 1.1 A member of a foreign nobility having a rank similar to that of a baron.
  Example sentencesExamples
  She was much sweeter than Selina, but still was not good with people (except rich princes, counts, dukes, and barons who came to court her).
  She was also introduced to several lords, dukes and soon to be counts and barons, who were her age.
  In the Papal States, the urban nobilities and feudal barons were subject, at least in name, to clerical officials appointed by their overlord the Pope.
  The previous baron and baroness retired, and so a new baron and baroness were created by the king.
  He had to swear an oath to the baron, duke or earl, collect taxes when told to do so and provide soldiers from his land when they were needed.
  But with the aid of a meddling foreign country, the rebellious and discontent barons of that upper part of the country succeeded in receding from Palasar to create their own kingdom.
  The action centres around a 20-year-old woman who has two loves in life - diamonds and furs - and two lovers - a baron and a maharaja - who provide them.
  He pictured the rulers of the countries of the world meeting at the annual Nomari, and countless trembling presidents, kings, barons, and prime ministers declaring him Emperor of Lothos.
  ‘Your Highness,’ the baron bowed to the duke, stepping aside.
  I love going to court parties, but they are rarely formal, and are only for lesser barons and countesses, not official King's court balls.
  ‘There is one more thing, baron,’ the Advisor continued.
  Today's Kings pay off barons so that the barons will let them retain their thrones.
  Lords and ladies, dukes and barons, deep in conversation awaited the arrival of King Alexander.
  What would you expect from a man whose ancestors were barons and dukes?
  In short, the great barons ran Germany, or rather, each baron ran his particular corner of it.
  Even now I hardly care who it is whether it be a baron, a duke, an earl, or a lowly serf.
  During this period, Malta was sold and resold to various feudal lords and barons and was dominated successively by the rulers of Swabia, Aquitaine, Aragon, Castile, and Spain.
  In pretending to be a baron and a countess, the pair pokes fun at rigid class structures and upper-crust, titled society.
  The duke gave these back out to those loyal to him, transforming his barons into an aristocracy that was loyal to him.
  But as long as I was still a baroness and he a baron, we would have to convince everyone around us that life was perfect.
2. 1.2historical A person who held lands or property from the sovereign or a powerful overlord.
  〈史〉（由君主或最高统治者册封土地或财产的）贵族
  Example sentencesExamples
  Because they had sworn an oath to their lord, it was taken for granted that they had sworn a similar oath to the duke, earl or baron who owned that lord's property.
  He gave fiefs to Norman lords, trying to keep the Saxon barons from becoming too strong.
  Knights and barons who had formerly controlled their own armies now took orders from the King.
  Her parents were a baron and baroness and they had an older son as well that was to inherit the fief.
  Some two hundred Norman barons took the land of over four thousand Anglo-Saxon lords, many of whom were exiled or killed.
  Synonyms
  ruler, sovereign, lord, overlord, dynast, leader, monarch, crowned head
2with modifier An important or powerful person in a specified business or industry.
（行业）巨头，大王
a press baron
报业巨头。
Example sentencesExamples
- All the British press barons have big investments in the United States.
- Jay Gould, the railroad baron, ordered sets of photographs and a Gerome album from Knoedler.
- Somehow reorder the world so that drugs would be treated in the same way as fags - legal but educated against - and the drugs lords and narcotics barons would lose their power.
- Such service has ensured the custom of royal families, business barons and assorted celebrities over decades of dealing with the rich and famous.
- Since the stock market started to falter, more and more people have been having a go at becoming property barons.
- It's known for hot tempers, drug lords and timber barons, none of which you want to mess with.
- Sugar barons appoint their cronies or family members as chairpersons and directors.
- The cattle barons dominated because without property rights the biggest operations gained all the competitive advantage.
- British and American media barons battled it out, with television broadcasting and production representing the modern Plains of Abraham and the Yanks acting as unrepentant victors.
- The New York Times reports that the pharmaceutical barons are the most powerful lobby in Washington.
- The annihilator of the hereditary peers has succumbed to the trade union barons.
- But in February 2004, newspaper baron Lord Conrad Black of Crossharbour received an unusually explicit judicial whipping.
- He is contemptuous of press barons such as Lord Beaverbrook, who ran ‘the Daily Express merely for the purpose of making propaganda’.
- Of course the British and the mining barons didn't want to use these materials, and people like Milner didn't want the prefabricated look, so the answer was an architect who could appreciate what was needed.
- A railroad baron then donated his property on Nob Hill for a diocesan cathedral.
- In one delightful sequence, Bertie urges Churchill to form a new government, but asks that he leave newspaper baron Lord Beaverbrook out of it.
- Our heroine goes in search of the fabled Pandora's Box in order to stop a bio-weapons baron opening it up.
- Happy is the press baron whose political and business interests work hand in hand - or fist in glove.
- For instance the Irish linen industry arose because British textile barons successfully lobbied to kill the Irish cotton industry.
- All three categories, then - moguls, barons, and stars - existed before such modern mass media as film and radio; all three categories also exist more widely in business and other spheres.
Synonyms
magnate, tycoon, mogul, captain of industry, nabob, grandee, mandarin

Origin

Middle English: from Old French, from medieval Latin baro, baron- ‘man, warrior’, probably of Germanic origin.

词汇	baron
释义	Definition of baron in English: baron noun ˈbar(ə)nˈbɛrən 1A member of the lowest order of the British nobility. Baron is not used as a form of address, barons usually being referred to as ‘Lord’. 男爵（英国贵族制度中最低的一级，不用作称呼，一般以Lord相称） Example sentencesExamples They are being sold by Manorial Auctioneers of London on behalf of Lord Hothfield, a Cumbrian-based baron whose lineage stretches back to the middle ages. Her ancestors and relatives include a variety of dukes and barons and her maternal grandmother, Pandora Jones, was a god-daughter of the Duke of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII. Osyth's father, like any responsible aristocrat, consults his barons and arranges a suitable marriage for his daughter in accordance with their advice. John said he bought the titles to stop them falling in to foreign hands but would not be calling himself a baron. Henry III infuriated the barons by favouring foreigners over his own nobility. The building had been around since the end of eighteenth century, planned by Lord Radcliffe, an English baron, who also was one of the first settlers of Greenwood. Attendants of an earl, viscount or baron wore six rows of curls on state wigs and five on house wigs. The castles of the rebellious barons were razed and the nobles never challenged the duke's power again. Marlborough prospered after Charles's victory over the Exclusionists in 1681, becoming a baron in the Scots peerage and colonel of the Royal Dragoons. Beyond that, there were 10,000 further titles of nobility (chiefs, chieftains, feudal barons and lairds), so that one Scot in 45 belonged to a noble house. Dukes, duchesses, and barons made up the nobility, while the gentry consisted of knights and lords. At the college balls held each summer, the female companion of an Old Harrovian or Etonian would, in all probability, be the daughter of a baron or a duke, wrapped in the best silk. At the funeral of Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1792, his body was borne to its resting place in St Paul's Cathedral by no less than three dukes, two marquesses, three earls, a viscount and a baron. There is an evident resemblance between those barons who humiliated King John and the Whig magnates who invited William of Orange to usurp the throne. In the center of the crowds of barons and knights under the king, was Johnathan Steevens. Most of the barons and lords that went up against Arthur, and lost, ended up as his knights and governing heads. In the summer of 1306, bishops and barons and knights from all around England left their country manors and villages and journeyed to London. From the Magna Carta, English princes and barons made it clear to the royal crown that they had rights and this ideal became rooted in English custom. They all sat in a row, ranged according to their rank - kings and princes and dukes and earls and counts and barons and knights. Well, you see, the lords and barons swore their oath to make the king sign the Magna Carta at Bury St Edmunds. Synonyms noble, nobleman, aristocrat, peer, lord 1.1 A member of a foreign nobility having a rank similar to that of a British baron. Example sentencesExamples But as long as I was still a baroness and he a baron, we would have to convince everyone around us that life was perfect. She was also introduced to several lords, dukes and soon to be counts and barons, who were her age. Even now I hardly care who it is whether it be a baron, a duke, an earl, or a lowly serf. The previous baron and baroness retired, and so a new baron and baroness were created by the king. But with the aid of a meddling foreign country, the rebellious and discontent barons of that upper part of the country succeeded in receding from Palasar to create their own kingdom. He pictured the rulers of the countries of the world meeting at the annual Nomari, and countless trembling presidents, kings, barons, and prime ministers declaring him Emperor of Lothos. ‘There is one more thing, baron,’ the Advisor continued. He had to swear an oath to the baron, duke or earl, collect taxes when told to do so and provide soldiers from his land when they were needed. She was much sweeter than Selina, but still was not good with people (except rich princes, counts, dukes, and barons who came to court her). The action centres around a 20-year-old woman who has two loves in life - diamonds and furs - and two lovers - a baron and a maharaja - who provide them. In short, the great barons ran Germany, or rather, each baron ran his particular corner of it. In pretending to be a baron and a countess, the pair pokes fun at rigid class structures and upper-crust, titled society. Today's Kings pay off barons so that the barons will let them retain their thrones. What would you expect from a man whose ancestors were barons and dukes? I love going to court parties, but they are rarely formal, and are only for lesser barons and countesses, not official King's court balls. The duke gave these back out to those loyal to him, transforming his barons into an aristocracy that was loyal to him. In the Papal States, the urban nobilities and feudal barons were subject, at least in name, to clerical officials appointed by their overlord the Pope. Lords and ladies, dukes and barons, deep in conversation awaited the arrival of King Alexander. During this period, Malta was sold and resold to various feudal lords and barons and was dominated successively by the rulers of Swabia, Aquitaine, Aragon, Castile, and Spain. ‘Your Highness,’ the baron bowed to the duke, stepping aside. 1.2historical A person who held lands or property from the sovereign or a powerful overlord. 〈史〉（由君主或最高统治者册封土地或财产的）贵族 Example sentencesExamples Some two hundred Norman barons took the land of over four thousand Anglo-Saxon lords, many of whom were exiled or killed. Because they had sworn an oath to their lord, it was taken for granted that they had sworn a similar oath to the duke, earl or baron who owned that lord's property. Knights and barons who had formerly controlled their own armies now took orders from the King. Her parents were a baron and baroness and they had an older son as well that was to inherit the fief. He gave fiefs to Norman lords, trying to keep the Saxon barons from becoming too strong. Synonyms ruler, sovereign, lord, overlord, dynast, leader, monarch, crowned head 2with modifier An important or powerful person in a specified business or industry. （行业）巨头，大王 a press baron 报业巨头。 Example sentencesExamples For instance the Irish linen industry arose because British textile barons successfully lobbied to kill the Irish cotton industry. Happy is the press baron whose political and business interests work hand in hand - or fist in glove. He is contemptuous of press barons such as Lord Beaverbrook, who ran ‘the Daily Express merely for the purpose of making propaganda’. In one delightful sequence, Bertie urges Churchill to form a new government, but asks that he leave newspaper baron Lord Beaverbrook out of it. Sugar barons appoint their cronies or family members as chairpersons and directors. All three categories, then - moguls, barons, and stars - existed before such modern mass media as film and radio; all three categories also exist more widely in business and other spheres. Of course the British and the mining barons didn't want to use these materials, and people like Milner didn't want the prefabricated look, so the answer was an architect who could appreciate what was needed. Somehow reorder the world so that drugs would be treated in the same way as fags - legal but educated against - and the drugs lords and narcotics barons would lose their power. Jay Gould, the railroad baron, ordered sets of photographs and a Gerome album from Knoedler. A railroad baron then donated his property on Nob Hill for a diocesan cathedral. All the British press barons have big investments in the United States. The annihilator of the hereditary peers has succumbed to the trade union barons. Since the stock market started to falter, more and more people have been having a go at becoming property barons. The cattle barons dominated because without property rights the biggest operations gained all the competitive advantage. Such service has ensured the custom of royal families, business barons and assorted celebrities over decades of dealing with the rich and famous. The New York Times reports that the pharmaceutical barons are the most powerful lobby in Washington. British and American media barons battled it out, with television broadcasting and production representing the modern Plains of Abraham and the Yanks acting as unrepentant victors. But in February 2004, newspaper baron Lord Conrad Black of Crossharbour received an unusually explicit judicial whipping. Our heroine goes in search of the fabled Pandora's Box in order to stop a bio-weapons baron opening it up. It's known for hot tempers, drug lords and timber barons, none of which you want to mess with. Synonyms magnate, tycoon, mogul, captain of industry, nabob, grandee, mandarin industrialist, proprietor, entrepreneur, executive, chief, leader informal big shot, bigwig, honcho North American informal big wheel derogatory fat cat Origin Middle English: from Old French, from medieval Latin baro, baron- 'man, warrior', probably of Germanic origin. Rhymes Aran, Arran, barren, Darren, Karen, Sharon, yarran Definition of baron in US English: baron nounˈbɛrənˈberən 1A member of the lowest order of the British nobility. The term “Baron” is not used as a form of address in Britain, barons usually being referred to as “Lord.”. 男爵（英国贵族制度中最低的一级，不用作称呼，一般以Lord相称） Example sentencesExamples Attendants of an earl, viscount or baron wore six rows of curls on state wigs and five on house wigs. In the summer of 1306, bishops and barons and knights from all around England left their country manors and villages and journeyed to London. The castles of the rebellious barons were razed and the nobles never challenged the duke's power again. John said he bought the titles to stop them falling in to foreign hands but would not be calling himself a baron. Marlborough prospered after Charles's victory over the Exclusionists in 1681, becoming a baron in the Scots peerage and colonel of the Royal Dragoons. In the center of the crowds of barons and knights under the king, was Johnathan Steevens. Osyth's father, like any responsible aristocrat, consults his barons and arranges a suitable marriage for his daughter in accordance with their advice. Her ancestors and relatives include a variety of dukes and barons and her maternal grandmother, Pandora Jones, was a god-daughter of the Duke of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII. Well, you see, the lords and barons swore their oath to make the king sign the Magna Carta at Bury St Edmunds. There is an evident resemblance between those barons who humiliated King John and the Whig magnates who invited William of Orange to usurp the throne. Most of the barons and lords that went up against Arthur, and lost, ended up as his knights and governing heads. At the funeral of Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1792, his body was borne to its resting place in St Paul's Cathedral by no less than three dukes, two marquesses, three earls, a viscount and a baron. Henry III infuriated the barons by favouring foreigners over his own nobility. Beyond that, there were 10,000 further titles of nobility (chiefs, chieftains, feudal barons and lairds), so that one Scot in 45 belonged to a noble house. At the college balls held each summer, the female companion of an Old Harrovian or Etonian would, in all probability, be the daughter of a baron or a duke, wrapped in the best silk. From the Magna Carta, English princes and barons made it clear to the royal crown that they had rights and this ideal became rooted in English custom. The building had been around since the end of eighteenth century, planned by Lord Radcliffe, an English baron, who also was one of the first settlers of Greenwood. They all sat in a row, ranged according to their rank - kings and princes and dukes and earls and counts and barons and knights. They are being sold by Manorial Auctioneers of London on behalf of Lord Hothfield, a Cumbrian-based baron whose lineage stretches back to the middle ages. Dukes, duchesses, and barons made up the nobility, while the gentry consisted of knights and lords. Synonyms noble, nobleman, aristocrat, peer, lord 1.1 A member of a foreign nobility having a rank similar to that of a baron. Example sentencesExamples She was much sweeter than Selina, but still was not good with people (except rich princes, counts, dukes, and barons who came to court her). She was also introduced to several lords, dukes and soon to be counts and barons, who were her age. In the Papal States, the urban nobilities and feudal barons were subject, at least in name, to clerical officials appointed by their overlord the Pope. The previous baron and baroness retired, and so a new baron and baroness were created by the king. He had to swear an oath to the baron, duke or earl, collect taxes when told to do so and provide soldiers from his land when they were needed. But with the aid of a meddling foreign country, the rebellious and discontent barons of that upper part of the country succeeded in receding from Palasar to create their own kingdom. The action centres around a 20-year-old woman who has two loves in life - diamonds and furs - and two lovers - a baron and a maharaja - who provide them. He pictured the rulers of the countries of the world meeting at the annual Nomari, and countless trembling presidents, kings, barons, and prime ministers declaring him Emperor of Lothos. ‘Your Highness,’ the baron bowed to the duke, stepping aside. I love going to court parties, but they are rarely formal, and are only for lesser barons and countesses, not official King's court balls. ‘There is one more thing, baron,’ the Advisor continued. Today's Kings pay off barons so that the barons will let them retain their thrones. Lords and ladies, dukes and barons, deep in conversation awaited the arrival of King Alexander. What would you expect from a man whose ancestors were barons and dukes? In short, the great barons ran Germany, or rather, each baron ran his particular corner of it. Even now I hardly care who it is whether it be a baron, a duke, an earl, or a lowly serf. During this period, Malta was sold and resold to various feudal lords and barons and was dominated successively by the rulers of Swabia, Aquitaine, Aragon, Castile, and Spain. In pretending to be a baron and a countess, the pair pokes fun at rigid class structures and upper-crust, titled society. The duke gave these back out to those loyal to him, transforming his barons into an aristocracy that was loyal to him. But as long as I was still a baroness and he a baron, we would have to convince everyone around us that life was perfect. 1.2historical A person who held lands or property from the sovereign or a powerful overlord. 〈史〉（由君主或最高统治者册封土地或财产的）贵族 Example sentencesExamples Because they had sworn an oath to their lord, it was taken for granted that they had sworn a similar oath to the duke, earl or baron who owned that lord's property. He gave fiefs to Norman lords, trying to keep the Saxon barons from becoming too strong. Knights and barons who had formerly controlled their own armies now took orders from the King. Her parents were a baron and baroness and they had an older son as well that was to inherit the fief. Some two hundred Norman barons took the land of over four thousand Anglo-Saxon lords, many of whom were exiled or killed. Synonyms ruler, sovereign, lord, overlord, dynast, leader, monarch, crowned head 2with modifier An important or powerful person in a specified business or industry. （行业）巨头，大王 a press baron 报业巨头。 Example sentencesExamples All the British press barons have big investments in the United States. Jay Gould, the railroad baron, ordered sets of photographs and a Gerome album from Knoedler. Somehow reorder the world so that drugs would be treated in the same way as fags - legal but educated against - and the drugs lords and narcotics barons would lose their power. Such service has ensured the custom of royal families, business barons and assorted celebrities over decades of dealing with the rich and famous. Since the stock market started to falter, more and more people have been having a go at becoming property barons. It's known for hot tempers, drug lords and timber barons, none of which you want to mess with. Sugar barons appoint their cronies or family members as chairpersons and directors. The cattle barons dominated because without property rights the biggest operations gained all the competitive advantage. British and American media barons battled it out, with television broadcasting and production representing the modern Plains of Abraham and the Yanks acting as unrepentant victors. The New York Times reports that the pharmaceutical barons are the most powerful lobby in Washington. The annihilator of the hereditary peers has succumbed to the trade union barons. But in February 2004, newspaper baron Lord Conrad Black of Crossharbour received an unusually explicit judicial whipping. He is contemptuous of press barons such as Lord Beaverbrook, who ran ‘the Daily Express merely for the purpose of making propaganda’. Of course the British and the mining barons didn't want to use these materials, and people like Milner didn't want the prefabricated look, so the answer was an architect who could appreciate what was needed. A railroad baron then donated his property on Nob Hill for a diocesan cathedral. In one delightful sequence, Bertie urges Churchill to form a new government, but asks that he leave newspaper baron Lord Beaverbrook out of it. Our heroine goes in search of the fabled Pandora's Box in order to stop a bio-weapons baron opening it up. Happy is the press baron whose political and business interests work hand in hand - or fist in glove. For instance the Irish linen industry arose because British textile barons successfully lobbied to kill the Irish cotton industry. All three categories, then - moguls, barons, and stars - existed before such modern mass media as film and radio; all three categories also exist more widely in business and other spheres. Synonyms magnate, tycoon, mogul, captain of industry, nabob, grandee, mandarin Origin Middle English: from Old French, from medieval Latin baro, baron- ‘man, warrior’, probably of Germanic origin.
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