Definition of viscount
: a member of the peerage in Great Britain ranking below an earl and above a baron
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The British hereditary title is directly below baron, with viscounts, earls, marquesses, and dukes above it.
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Those standing are an array of earls, viscounts and even a duke.
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Baronet is a rank in the British aristocracy, albeit below dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The feeding, for instance, takes place in a French chateau ruled by a viscount for hundreds of years.
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: a man who is a member of the British nobility and who ranks below an earl and above a baron
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: a British nobleman ranking below an earl and above a baron
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