viscount

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vis·count | \ ˈvī-ˌkau̇nt

Definition of viscount

: a member of the peerage in Great Britain ranking below an earl and above a baron

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Recent Examples on the Web Luke Evans Plays Charles His Character: A wealthy playboy viscount who befriends Audrey and invites the Spitzes to join him on his uncle's yacht in Monaco for the weekend. — Andrea Reiher, refinery29.com, 3 June 2019 It was commissioned by Tomás Maria Bessone, a wealthy Lisbon entrepreneur who was made a viscount in 1870. — J. S. Marcus, WSJ, 25 July 2018 The British hereditary title is directly below baron, with viscounts, earls, marquesses, and dukes above it. — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 26 June 2018 Those standing are an array of earls, viscounts and even a duke. — The Economist, 21 June 2018 Baronet is a rank in the British aristocracy, albeit below dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons. — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 12 June 2018 The Queen can choose from five titles for a man -- duke, marquess, earl, viscount or baron -- and for a woman -- duchess, marchioness, countess, viscountess and baroness. — Angela Dewan, CNN, 19 May 2018 In Hugh Bonneville’s latest film, The Viceroy's House, the Downton Abbey alum plays the illustrious viscount that resigned himself to partitioning the country. — Natalina Lopez, Town & Country, 10 Aug. 2017 What Franz Kafka is to Prague, local son Italo Calvino has become to Torino, so this traveler’s bar is lavishly upholstered with the gnomic witticisms of this Oulipo literateur: viscounts mathematically carved in half, dropouts who live up in trees. — Wired Staff, WIRED, 27 June 2007

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