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baronet
[bar-uh-nit, bar-uh-net]
noun
a member of a British hereditary order of honor, ranking below the barons and made up of commoners, designated by Sir before the name and Baronet, usually abbreviated Bart., after.
Sir John Smith, Bart.
baronet
/ -ˌnɛt, ˈbærənɪt /
noun
Abbreviation: Bart.. Bt.(in Britain) a commoner who holds the lowest hereditary title of honour, ranking below a baron
Other 51Թ Forms
- baronetical adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of baronet1
Example Sentences
The baronet and his wife said the decision was due to a desire to retire and do other things after decades working to maintain the large estate.
She is also cushioned by wealth, her father being a baronet with connections and a country estate.
He’s also a baronet, master of an estate near a coal-mining village in the Midlands.
Lawrence novel about the neglected young wife of an impotent baronet who has an affair with the country estate gamekeeper.
His father — at least, according to his birth certificate — was Sir Edward Lindsay-Hogg, a baronet of Rotherfield Hall in East Sussex, England.
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