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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. 惭颈路肠丑别濒 [mee-, shel], Michel Boyron, 1653鈥1729, French actor.

baron

/ 藞产忙谤蓹苍 /

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
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of baron1

1200鈥50; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French < Late Latin 产补谤艒苍- (stemof 产补谤艒 ) man < Germanic; sense 鈥渃ut of beef鈥娾 perhaps by analogy with the fanciful analysis of sirloin as 鈥淪ir Loin鈥
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亚洲网紅露点 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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Even more of a threat to the drugs barons 鈥 so the government says 鈥 will be two newly converted prisons, where the 100 most powerful of them will be interned from later this year.

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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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Even in the triumph of the worst, which is the age of robber barons and the age of rapacious capitalism and imperialism, even those things were being contested.

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鈥淭his is a direct transfer of wealth from the U.S. treasury to David Sacks and other crypto barons,鈥 investigative journalist Ryan Grim wrote.

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