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baron
1[bar-uhn]
noun
a member of the lowest grade of nobility.
(in Britain)
a feudal vassal holding his lands under a direct grant from the king.
a direct descendant of such a vassal or his equal in the nobility.
a member of the House of Lords.
an important financier or industrialist, especially one with great power in a particular area.
an oil baron.
a cut of mutton or lamb comprising the two loins, or saddle, and the hind legs.
Baron
2[b
noun
Michel Michel Boyron, 1653–1729, French actor.
baron
/ ˈæə /
noun
a member of a specific rank of nobility, esp the lowest rank in the British Isles
(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
a powerful businessman or financier
a press baron
English law (formerly) the title held by judges of the Court of Exchequer
short for baron of beef
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of baron1
Example Sentences
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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