What is the meaning of BARON. Phrases containing BARON
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A cattle owner with numerous herds of stock, welding power and influence in an area.
Baron is British slang for a prisoner enjoying power and influence over his fellow inmates.
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The vassal or tenant of a baron; one who held under a baron, and who also had tenants under him; one in dignity next to a baron; a title of dignity next to a baron.
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An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse.
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A writ by which a cause pending in a court baron was removed into a country court.
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The whole body of barons or peers.
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State or rank of a baronet.
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A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.
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In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner.
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Pertaining to a baron or a barony.
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A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its place.
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A nobleman of the fourth rank, next in order below an earl and next above a baron; also, his degree or title of nobility. See Peer, n., 3.
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The dignity or rank of a baron.
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The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.
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The rank or patent of a baronet.
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The land which gives title to a baron.
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A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife.
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A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses.
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A title prefixed to the Christian name of a knight or a baronet.
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The collective body of baronets.
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A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
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