Viscount
//ˈvaɪ.kaʊnt// name, noun
name, noun ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A member of the peerage, above a baron but below a count or earl.
- 2 The title of a viscount.
"On Tuesday the King gave audiences to the Earl of Albemarle, Viscounts Melbourne and Althorp, Lord Hill, and Sir James Graham."
- 3 a British peer who ranks below an earl and above a baron wordnet
- 4 Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and counts.
- 5 (in various countries) a son or younger brother or a count wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Example
More examples"Then a faintness came over her; she recalled the Viscount who had waltzed with her at the chateau, and his beard exhaled like this air an odour of vanilla and citron, and mechanically she half-closed her eyes the better to breathe it in."
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman viscounte, from Medieval Latin vicecomes, from Latin vice + comes. Equivalent to vice- + count. Doublet of vicecomes and vicomte.
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