a feudal vassal holding his lands under a direct grant from the king.
a direct descendant of such a vassal or his equal in the nobility.
a member of the House of Lords.
an important financier or industrialist, especially one with great power in a particular area: an oil baron.
a cut of mutton or lamb comprising the two loins, or saddle, and the hind legs.
Compare baron of beef.
Origin of baron
1200–50; Middle English <Anglo-French, Old French <Late Latin barōn- (stemof barō) man <Germanic; sense “cut of beef” perhaps by analogy with the fanciful analysis of sirloin as “Sir Loin”
The event will cap off the committee’s year-long investigation into whether Congress should reanimate antitrust laws born in the Gilded Age and apply them to the barons of the 21st century digital economy.
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In 2012, the Kazakh foreign minister actually thanked Baron Cohen for making the movie.
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I told Seiler that I certainly did remember Edo Vanni, an outfielder who passed through briefly as a Baron.
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Your dad worked with Sherrill on The Baron in 1981 and recorded a few songs for Out Among the Stars around that time.
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Duchess is the highest rank in the English peerage (in descending order the ranks go duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron).
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The brilliantly intellectual Baron de Charlus suffers a stroke.
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It would have delighted your heart to read it, were his words in writing to Baron Stockmar.
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"Yes, these stories always end in the same way, baron," said he.
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"Nowadays we get it all through the winter," said the Baron with a gesture of disenchantment.
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I presume you mean that Baron Benoni asked you to marry him?
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But they did not hobble far, for the voice of the Baron was heard in angry expostulation.
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British Dictionary definitions for baron
baron
/ (ˈbærən) /
noun
a member of a specific rank of nobility, esp the lowest rank in the British Isles
(in Europe from the Middle Ages) originally any tenant-in-chief of a king or other overlord, who held land from his superior by honourable service; a land-holding nobleman
a powerful businessman or financiera press baron
English law(formerly) the title held by judges of the Court of Exchequer
short for baron of beef
Word Origin for baron
C12: from Old French, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German baro freeman, Old Norse berjask to fight