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BARON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A very wealthy or powerful businessman
Example:
an oil baron
Synonyms:
baron; big businessman; business leader; king; magnate; mogul; power; top executive; tycoon
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("baron" is a kind of...):
businessman; man of affairs (a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "baron"):
oil tycoon (a powerful person in the oil business)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A British peer of the lowest rank
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("baron" is a kind of...):
peer (a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("baron" is a kind of...):
Lord; noble; nobleman (a titled peer of the realm)
Derivation:
baronial (impressive in appearance)
Context examples:
Here and there a small escutcheon, peeping from a glassless window, marked the night's lodging of knight or baron.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
From the shields, there is not one of these vessels which hath not knight or baron aboard.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the cloisters he had heard vague talk of the law—the mighty law which was higher than prelate or baron, yet no sign could he see of it.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Under the royal banners rode many a bold Gascon baron and many a hot-blooded islander.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“And if you could drink yourself in, old leather-head, you had been first baron of the realm,” cried the aggrieved Humphrey.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
From time to time the throng would be burst asunder and a lady's horse-litter would trot past towards the abbey, or there would come a knot of torch-bearing archers walking in front of Gascon baron or English knight, as he sought his lodgings after the palace revels.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Why, look you, in the affair at Brignais some four years back, when the companies slew James of Bourbon, and put his army to the sword, there was scarce a man of ours who had not count, baron, or knight.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So long as knight and baron were a strength and a guard to the kingdom they might be endured, but now, when all men knew that the great battles in France had been won by English yeomen and Welsh stabbers, warlike fame, the only fame to which his class had ever aspired, appeared to have deserted the plate-clad horsemen.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I fear that you are yet a 'prentice to that trade, quoth the soldier; for there is no child over the water but could answer what you ask. Know then that though there may be peace between our own provinces and the French, yet within the marches of France there is always war, for the country is much divided against itself, and is furthermore harried by bands of flayers, skinners, Brabacons, tardvenus, and the rest of them. When every man's grip is on his neighbor's throat, and every five-sous-piece of a baron is marching with tuck of drum to fight whom he will, it would be a strange thing if five hundred brave English boys could not pick up a living.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here you find us; and we cannot wonder that you, who are new to tumbling, should be astounded, since many great barons, earls, marshals and knights, who have wandered as far as the Holy Land, are of one mind in saying that they have never seen a more noble or gracious performance.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
