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Definition of baroness in English: baronessnoun ˈbarənɛsˈbɛrənəs 1The wife or widow of a baron. Baroness is not used as a form of address, baronesses usually being referred to as ‘Lady’. Example sentencesExamples - The baroness, whose family originates from Wilberfoss, was jailed for seven years in 1990 for stealing from her aunt, the late Lady Illingworth, and forging a will.
- She was to become a lady-in-waiting for a baroness in Norfolk, the end of the English world for Sibyl.
- I vaguely remember her to be a baroness or the like of it.
- We're all expected to be there, and all the nobles will be there - lords, ladies, counts, viscounts, dukes, duchesses, barons, baronesses, and marquises; all of them.
- The baroness encouraged her daughter's friendship with the princess, hoping to improve her status, but to no avail.
- They spoke to a full hall - with 40 people,’ the baroness explained to us.
- The baroness is a wealthy American Quaker brought to 19 th-century Paris by her husband's business dealings, trying to make the best of it as a cultural dilettante.
- I have heard the baroness was fostered in a convent.
- Jennie Lee, after all, ended up as a baroness - a sinister parallel with Margaret Thatcher.
- South Australia's office of Thinker in Residence is occupied by neuroscientist Susan Greenfield, an English baroness and professor.
- Pity the baroness but not the minister who died on his feet
- Mrs Bartley said: ‘I have been a very strong advocate of this scheme, and it seemed that the baroness was thoroughly interested.’
- The previous baron and baroness retired, and so a new baron and baroness were created by the king.
- The baroness has transformed the wine of Chateau Clarke with the help of leading wine consultant Michel Rolland.
- I loved the advantages of being a baroness, what with the wealth that I had to spend; but sometimes I felt restrained.
- I am still waiting for that someone to be my baroness.
- Like the baroness, I would prefer my children and grandchildren had my ‘estate ‘rather than waste it on nursing-home fees for my old useless body.’
- 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.
- Caroline became a baroness when she married a German aristocrat and military officer named Baron Von Roques.
- 1.1 A woman holding the rank of baron either as a life peerage or as a hereditary rank.
Example sentencesExamples - He married a baroness and went on to write a doctoral dissertation on an unusual topic, ‘Epicureanism’.
- The daughter of an English banker and a Dutch baroness, she was educated at private schools in England and the Netherlands.
- Her mother was a Viennese baroness, a descendant of Leopold Baron von Sacher-Masoch, author of the masochistic classic Venus in Furs.
- Although the name Hepburn is common in Scotland, she was actually born in Belgium and her mother was a Dutch baroness.
- He had four major relationships, a German baroness, a Spanish aristocrat, an American heiress and, of course, the gorgeous Norwegian model Eva Sannum.
- During this time, Lockhart met Moura Budberg, a Ukrainian-born baroness, who became the love of his life, and with whom, according to his son, he remained romantically involved until his death in 1970.
- The Yorkshire-born baroness was one of four distinguished figures from the worlds of literature, science and politics presented with honorary degrees by university Chancellor Lord Bragg.
- She had been awarded a title baroness by the time she joined us the fall of '93.
- ‘Good luck tonight, baroness, I pray you find a worthy man tonight,’ cheered Genevieve as she looked over her masterpiece.
- Perhaps I will see you tomorrow night at the baroness's betrothal festivities.
- My mother came from a blue blooded Catholic family, she was actually a baroness.
- That is Bryn Ulrick; his mother is a wealthy baroness, his father a hunter.
- Faulkner asked the baroness in the House of Lords whether the UKs government would support the resolution passed by the European Parliament on Dec.18 last year.
- The foundation of his career was his marriage to the granddaughter of the master of Loudoun, a baroness in her own right.
- I worry about the plea bargain arrangements which made it possible for Mark Thatcher to get away with a R3 million fine, which will probably be paid by the baroness or his Texas in-laws.
- She's probably best known as the baroness in The Sound of Music, who loses Christopher Plummer to Julie Andrews, but she is to be found as eye candy in a lot of lesser films of the '40s and '50s.
- But what possessed Kinnock, Hattersley, and our more enlightened baronesses?
Synonyms noblewoman, gentlewoman, duchess, countess, peeress, viscountess, dame, grand dame
Definition of baroness in US English: baronessnounˈbɛrənəsˈberənəs 1The wife or widow of a baron. The term “Baroness” is not used as a form of address in Britain, baronesses usually being referred to as “Lady.”. Example sentencesExamples - Pity the baroness but not the minister who died on his feet
- South Australia's office of Thinker in Residence is occupied by neuroscientist Susan Greenfield, an English baroness and professor.
- The previous baron and baroness retired, and so a new baron and baroness were created by the king.
- I loved the advantages of being a baroness, what with the wealth that I had to spend; but sometimes I felt restrained.
- 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.
- Jennie Lee, after all, ended up as a baroness - a sinister parallel with Margaret Thatcher.
- The baroness is a wealthy American Quaker brought to 19 th-century Paris by her husband's business dealings, trying to make the best of it as a cultural dilettante.
- The baroness has transformed the wine of Chateau Clarke with the help of leading wine consultant Michel Rolland.
- She was to become a lady-in-waiting for a baroness in Norfolk, the end of the English world for Sibyl.
- I am still waiting for that someone to be my baroness.
- Mrs Bartley said: ‘I have been a very strong advocate of this scheme, and it seemed that the baroness was thoroughly interested.’
- The baroness encouraged her daughter's friendship with the princess, hoping to improve her status, but to no avail.
- I vaguely remember her to be a baroness or the like of it.
- Like the baroness, I would prefer my children and grandchildren had my ‘estate ‘rather than waste it on nursing-home fees for my old useless body.’
- We're all expected to be there, and all the nobles will be there - lords, ladies, counts, viscounts, dukes, duchesses, barons, baronesses, and marquises; all of them.
- They spoke to a full hall - with 40 people,’ the baroness explained to us.
- The baroness, whose family originates from Wilberfoss, was jailed for seven years in 1990 for stealing from her aunt, the late Lady Illingworth, and forging a will.
- Caroline became a baroness when she married a German aristocrat and military officer named Baron Von Roques.
- I have heard the baroness was fostered in a convent.
- 1.1 A woman holding the rank of baron either as a life peerage or as a hereditary rank.
Example sentencesExamples - He married a baroness and went on to write a doctoral dissertation on an unusual topic, ‘Epicureanism’.
- Faulkner asked the baroness in the House of Lords whether the UKs government would support the resolution passed by the European Parliament on Dec.18 last year.
- ‘Good luck tonight, baroness, I pray you find a worthy man tonight,’ cheered Genevieve as she looked over her masterpiece.
- She's probably best known as the baroness in The Sound of Music, who loses Christopher Plummer to Julie Andrews, but she is to be found as eye candy in a lot of lesser films of the '40s and '50s.
- But what possessed Kinnock, Hattersley, and our more enlightened baronesses?
- I worry about the plea bargain arrangements which made it possible for Mark Thatcher to get away with a R3 million fine, which will probably be paid by the baroness or his Texas in-laws.
- Perhaps I will see you tomorrow night at the baroness's betrothal festivities.
- The daughter of an English banker and a Dutch baroness, she was educated at private schools in England and the Netherlands.
- The foundation of his career was his marriage to the granddaughter of the master of Loudoun, a baroness in her own right.
- He had four major relationships, a German baroness, a Spanish aristocrat, an American heiress and, of course, the gorgeous Norwegian model Eva Sannum.
- The Yorkshire-born baroness was one of four distinguished figures from the worlds of literature, science and politics presented with honorary degrees by university Chancellor Lord Bragg.
- During this time, Lockhart met Moura Budberg, a Ukrainian-born baroness, who became the love of his life, and with whom, according to his son, he remained romantically involved until his death in 1970.
- Although the name Hepburn is common in Scotland, she was actually born in Belgium and her mother was a Dutch baroness.
- Her mother was a Viennese baroness, a descendant of Leopold Baron von Sacher-Masoch, author of the masochistic classic Venus in Furs.
- That is Bryn Ulrick; his mother is a wealthy baroness, his father a hunter.
- My mother came from a blue blooded Catholic family, she was actually a baroness.
- She had been awarded a title baroness by the time she joined us the fall of '93.
Synonyms noblewoman, gentlewoman, duchess, countess, peeress, viscountess, dame, grand dame
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