Baron vs Countess - What's the difference?
baron | countess |
The male ruler of a barony.
A male member of the lowest rank of British nobility.
A particular cut of beef, made up of a double sirloin.
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) ,
A person of great power in society, especially in business and politics.
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, title= (legal, obsolete) A husband.
The wife of a count or earl.
The title used by a female who holds an earldom in her own right.
Countess is a coordinate term of baron.
As nouns the difference between baron and countess
is that baron is the male ruler of a barony while countess is the wife of a count or earl.As a proper noun Baron
is {{surname}.baron
English
Noun
(en noun)- Such portentous appetites had Queequeg and Tashtego, that to fill out the vacancies made by the previous repast, often the pale Dough-Boy was fain to bring on a great baron of salt-junk, seemingly quarried out of the solid ox.
Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
- baron and feme: husband and wife
Derived terms
* baron and femme * barony * robber baronAnagrams
*References
* "baron n. ", Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989; first published in New English Dictionary, 1885. ----countess
English
Noun
(es)- Elizabeth Millicent Leveson-Gower is 24th Countess of Sutherland; her son will be the 25th Earl.