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Baron

Baron Meaning & Definition
Baron Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Baron?

[n] a very wealthy or powerful businessman; "an oil baron"
[n] a British peer of the lowest rank
[n] a nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank

Synonyms | Synonyms for Baron: big businessman | business leader | king | magnate | mogul | power | top executive | tycoon

Related Terms | Find terms related to Baron: archduke | aristocracy | aristocrat | armiger | banker | baronet | barons | big boss | big businessman | big gun | big man | big name | bigwig | blue blood | Brahman | brass | brass hat | business leader | businessman | captain of industry | celebrity | count | cream | czar | daimio | dignitary | dignity | director | duke | earl | elder | elite | enterpriser | entrepreneur | esquire | Establishment | father | figure | financier | gentleman | grand duke | grandee | great man | hidalgo | important person | industrialist | interests | king | lace-curtain | laird | landgrave | lion | little businessman | lord | lordling | lords of creation | magnate | magnifico | man of commerce | man of mark | manager | margrave | marquis | merchant prince | mogul | nabob | name | nobility | noble | nobleman | notability | notable | optimate | overlapping | palsgrave | panjandrum | patrician | peer | person of renown | personage | personality | pillar of society | power | power elite | power structure | prince | ruling circle | ruling circles | ruling class | sachem | seigneur | seignior | silk-stocking | somebody | something | squire | swell | the best | the best people | the brass | the great | the top | thoroughbred | top brass | top executive | top people | tycoon | upper class | upper crust | upper-cruster | very important person | VIP | viscount | waldgrave | worthy

See Also | businessman | Lord | man of affairs | noble | nobleman | oil tycoon | peer

Baron In Webster's Dictionary

\Bar"on\, n. [OE. baron, barun, OF. baron, accus. of ber, F. baron, prob. fr. OHG. baro (not found) bearer, akin to E. bear to support; cf. O. Frisian bere, LL. baro, It. barone, Sp. varon. From the meaning bearer (of burdens) seem to have come the senses strong man, man (in distinction from woman), which is the oldest meaning in French, and lastly, nobleman. Cf. L. baro, simpleton. See {Bear} to support.] 1. A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount. Note: ``The tenants in chief from the Crown, who held lands of the annual value of four hundred pounds, were styled Barons; and it is to them, and not to the members of the lowest grade of the nobility (to whom the title at the present time belongs), that reference is made when we read of the Barons of the early days of England's history . . . . Barons are addressed as 'My Lord,' and are styled 'Right Honorable.' All their sons and daughters 'Honorable.''' --Cussans. 2. (Old Law) A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife. [R.] --Cowell. {Baron of beef}, two sirloins not cut asunder at the backbone. {Barons of the Cinque Ports}, formerly members of the House of Commons, elected by the seven Cinque Ports, two for each port. {Baron of the exchequer}, the judges of the Court of Exchequer, one of the three ancient courts of England, now abolished.

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