Baroness

Word BARONESS
Character 8
Hyphenation bar on ess
Pronunciations /ˌbæ.ɹəˈnɛs/

Definitions and meanings of "Baroness"

What do we mean by baroness?

The wife or widow of a baron. noun

A woman holding the title to a barony. noun

Used as the title for such a noblewoman. noun

The wife of a baron, or (in a few cases in England) a lady holding a baronial title as a peeress in her own right. noun

A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right. noun

The female ruler of a barony. The male equivalent is baron. noun

A noblewoman who holds the rank of baron or who is the wife or widow of a baron noun

The wife of a baron.

A woman holding a baronial title in her own right; a female ruler of a barony.

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The word "baroness" in example sentences

ANNOUNCER: Thatcher retired from Parliament in 1992 and was given the title baroness, but politics remained her passion. ❋ Unknown (2005)

She had been awarded a title baroness by the time she joined us the fall of '93. ❋ Unknown (2001)

But on my forefinger I wore a heavy gold ring -- the gift of a certain German baroness whose name I may not mention. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1903)

If, that is, the baroness is the Master Criminal. " ❋ Peters, Elizabeth (1985)

Mr. ROCCA: But the baroness was a real horrible person. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The baroness was the one who secured my access to the museum in Austria for my research on the Spear of Destiny. ❋ KATHLEEN MCGOWAN (2010)

There is a dreadful second rater in The House of Lords called baroness Scotland: hope she gets the Order of The Boot along with Amos ❋ Unknown (2007)

The baroness is a woman of volatile and impetuous character and she was trying to make an impression on you. ❋ Peters, Elizabeth (1985)

Mr. Direck was not accustomed to titled people, and was suddenly in doubt whether you called a baroness "My Lady" or "Your Ladyship," so he wisely avoided any form of address until he had a lead from Mr. Britling. ❋ Unknown (1906)

The baroness was a charming woman who used a moderate invalidism in a smiling imperturbable fashion to insure herself a certain immunity from the demands of her autocratic lord. ❋ Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1902)

Rex was utterly indifferent to solitude or company, but since the baroness was to be his companion, he took some trouble to make himself agreeable. ❋ Unknown (1881)

Old men were alive whose fathers had told them of the good old Sigmundskrons, how they had been brave in war and kind in peace, and generous till all was gone, and the voices of these drowned the ill-natured remarks of the few who said that the baroness was a miser and had hoarded her gold these twenty years in the deep vault under the haunted north-west tower, upon the brink of the precipice. ❋ Unknown (1881)

But the baroness was a woman whose pride forbade her to accept under the pressure of necessity what had not been offered freely in other times. ❋ Unknown (1881)

This was the first occasion upon which Clara had ever let fall a word which could serve as a starting-point in the calculation, and though the baroness was the best and kindest of mortals she would not have been a woman if she had failed to notice the statement, or to draw from it such conclusions as it offered to her ingenuity. ❋ Unknown (1881)

When they went away she had quite regained her gayety of heart, and the baroness was the only one who showed any emotion at the parting. ❋ Guy De Maupassant (1871)

The baroness was a woman fair to see in the days twenty years back, though Clotilde might think it incredible: she really was once. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

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