Seigneur vs Count - What's the difference?
seigneur | count |
A feudal lord; a noble.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 156:
The hereditary feudal ruler of Sark.
* 2012 , Lauren Collins, The New Yorker , 29 Oct 2012:
A landowner in Canada; the holder of a seigneurie.
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To recite numbers in sequence.
To determine the number (of objects in a group).
To be of significance; to matter.
To be an example of something.
* J. A. Symonds
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(obsolete) To take account or note (of).
* Shakespeare
(UK, legal) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
The act of or tallying a quantity.
The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
A countdown.
(legal) A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
(baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
(obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
* Spenser
The male ruler of a county.
A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
As a proper noun seigneur
is lord (god).As a verb count is
to recite numbers in sequence.As a noun count is
the act of or tallying a quantity or count can be the male ruler of a county.seigneur
English
Alternative forms
* seigniorNoun
(en noun)- There was less and less love lost between peasants and seigneurs . The services which the latter had provided for the peasant community in the past had diminished in value.
- Beaumont lives on Sark, a small, autonomous island twenty-five miles off the coast of Normandy, with her husband, Michael, the island's seigneur .
count
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) counten, from (etyl) conter, from (etyl) ).Verb
(en verb)- This excellent man counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.
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- No man counts of her beauty.
- (Burrill)
Derived terms
* count one's blessings * count outNoun
(en noun)- Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.
- He has a 3-2 count with the bases loaded.
- all his care and count