baronet
pronunciation
How to pronounce baronet in British English:
UK [ˈbærənət]
How to pronounce baronet in American English:
US [ˈbærənɪt, ˌbærəˈnɛt]
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- Noun:
- a member of the British order of honor; ranks below a baron but above a knight
Word Origin
- baronet (n.)
- c. 1400, diminutive of baron with -et; originally a younger or lesser baron; as a titled hereditary order, established 1611.
Example
- 1. Was sir william a knight or baronet ?
- 2. Adam was never called master adam ; we never read of noah esquire , lot knight and baronet , not the right honorable abraham , viscount mesopotamia , baron of carinan ; no , no , they were plain men .
- 3. From the pecuniary costs of living as a baronet , to the insults meted out to brilliant females who dared to outdo men at mathematics , she holds up her mirror to an age at once startlingly modern in its hunger for knowledge and almost medieval in its weights of tradition .
- 4. His maternal grandfather was a baronet .
- 5. Sir edwin simcox , the sixth baronet .