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baron

1

[bar-uhn]

noun

  1. a member of the lowest grade of nobility.

  2. (in Britain)

    1. a feudal vassal holding his lands under a direct grant from the king.

    2. a direct descendant of such a vassal or his equal in the nobility.

    3. a member of the House of Lords.

  3. an important financier or industrialist, especially one with great power in a particular area.

    an oil baron.

  4. a cut of mutton or lamb comprising the two loins, or saddle, and the hind legs.



Baron

2

[ba-rawn]

noun

  1. Michel Michel Boyron, 1653–1729, French actor.

baron

/ ˈæə /

noun

  1. a member of a specific rank of nobility, esp the lowest rank in the British Isles

  2. (in Europe from the Middle Ages) originally any tenant-in-chief of a king or other overlord, who held land from his superior by honourable service; a land-holding nobleman

  3. a powerful businessman or financier

    a press baron

  4. English law (formerly) the title held by judges of the Court of Exchequer

  5. short for baron of beef

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of baron1

1200–50; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French < Late Latin ō- (stemof ō ) man < Germanic; sense “cut of beef ” perhaps by analogy with the fanciful analysis of sirloin as “Sir Loin”
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of baron1

C12: from Old French, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German baro freeman, Old Norse berjask to fight
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It will also see the creation of new high-security prisons - including the facility in French Guiana - to hold the most powerful drugs barons, with stricter rules governing visits and communication with the outside world.

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The billionaire Cox family, descendants of an Ohio press baron who bought his first newspaper in 1898, began acquiring cable systems in 1962 and has since held them with a tight grip.

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Even more of a threat to the drugs barons – so the government says – will be two newly converted prisons, where the 100 most powerful of them will be interned from later this year.

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And while she, as heiress to the Post Cereal fortune, was not a “robber baron” in the traditional sense of the word, that’s the vibe he likes.

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After more than a decade of Nazi ascendance, the party and the barons who would bail them out still distrusted one another.

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