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baronet

/bar-uh-nit, bar-uh-net/US // ˈbær ə nɪt, ˌbær əˈnɛt //UK // (ˈbærənɪt, -ˌnɛt) //

男爵,男爵大人,贵族,封爵

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a member of a British hereditary order of honor, ranking below the barons and made up of commoners, designated by Sir before the name and Baronet, usually abbreviated Bart., after: Sir John Smith, Bart.

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Examples

  • It is the prerogative of a viscount or a baron to make a person feel small, and of a baronet to extinguish him.

  • Needless to say, the Worcestershire baronet had returned to his ancestral acres a sadder but a wiser man.

  • A baronet scientifically skilled in pugilism, enjoyed no pleasure so much as giving gratuitous instructions in his favorite art.

  • The Baronet made three hundred a year out of this coach, and got his sport out of it for nothing.

  • The baronet saw that Richard, half-fuddled, was ripe for any confidences that might aim at the destruction of his enemy.

  • The right honourable baronet prefaced his motion by a speech of two hours' duration.