单词 | earl |
释义 | earl /errl/, n. 1. a British nobleman of a rank below that of marquis and above that of viscount: called count for a time after the Norman conquest. The wife of an earl is a countess. 2. (in Anglo-Saxon England) a governor of one of the great divisions of England, including East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria, and Wessex. [bef. 900; ME erl, OE eorl; c. OS erl man, ON jarl chieftain] |
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