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Baron vs Prince - What's the difference?

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Prince is a related term of baron.

Prince is a coordinate term of baron.



As nouns the difference between baron and prince

is that baron is the male ruler of a barony while prince is a (male) ruler, a sovereign; a king, monarch.

As proper nouns the difference between baron and prince

is that baron is {{surname} while Prince is the title of a prince.

baron

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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) ,
  • 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.
  • A person of great power in society, especially in business and politics.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
  • , title= 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.}}
  • (legal, obsolete) A husband.
  • baron and feme: husband and wife

    Derived terms

    * baron and femme * barony * robber baron

    Anagrams

    *

    References

    * "baron n. ", Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989; first published in New English Dictionary, 1885. ----

    prince

    English

    (wikipedia prince)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • *, I.42:
  • *:Truely, to see our Princes all alone, sitting at their meat, beleagred round with so many talkers, whisperers, and gazing beholders, unknowne what they are or whence they come, I have often rather pittied than envied them.
  • *2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin, 2010, p.600:
  • *:By his last years Erasmus realized that princes like Henry VIII and François I had deceived him in their elaborate negotiations for universal peace, but his belief in the potential of princely power for good remained undimmed.
  • *2009 , (Hilary Mantel), Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate, 2010, p.411:
  • *:If Henry does not fully trust him, is it surprising? A prince is alone: in his council chamber, in his bedchamber, and finally in Hell's antechamber, stripped – as Harry Percy said – for Judgment.
  • (obsolete) A female monarch.
  • *Camden
  • *:Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex.
  • Someone who is preeminent in their field; a great person.
  • :He is a prince among men.
  • The (male) ruler or head of a principality.
  • *2011 , Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian , 26 June:
  • *:He is the prince who never grew up – a one-time playboy and son of the Hollywood star Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco.
  • A male member of a royal family other than the ruler; especially (in the United Kingdom) the son or grandson of the monarch.
  • A non-royal high title of nobility, especially in France and the Holy Roman Empire.
  • :Prince Louis de Broglie won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • *2011 , Katharine Whitehorn, The Guardian , 16 October:
  • *:Conspiracy theories are always enticing: one I was involved with in the 50s was about Mayerling, the 19th-century Austrian scandal involving a prince ’s lover who died in dodgy circumstances in a hunting lodge.
  • A common name of the mushroom Agaricus augustus .
  • A type of court card used in Tarot cards, the equivalent to the Jack.
  • Usage notes

    * The female equivalent is princess . * A prince is usually addressed as "Your Highness". A son of a king is "His Royal Highness"; a son of an emperor is "His Imperial Highness". A sovereign prince may have a style such as "His Serene Highness".

    Synonyms

    * (mushroom) Agaricus augustus

    Hypernyms

    * ruler

    Coordinate terms

    * duke * emperor * Highness * king * grand duke

    See also

    * (Agaricus augustus) * (Agaricus augustus)

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words ----