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baronry

baronry noun: the state or quality of being a baron.

Noun

baronry (countable and uncountable, plural baronries)

  1. The state or quality of being a baron
    • It had done well enough for a thousand years, it would do well enough still; it had stood firm against fierce sieges in the dark ages of the Roman baronry, it could afford to stand unchanged in its monumental strength against the advancing sea of nineteenth-century civilisation.1887, F. Marion Crawford, Saracinesca
    • The order was revoked; but the feeling became even more intense when it was known that the king was getting ready to start for St. Denis, where his principal allies, the King of Bohemia, the Dukes of Hainault and of Lorraine, the Counts of Flanders and of Blois, "and a very great array of baronry...1868, Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times

Forms of baronry

pluralbaronries

Origin of baronry

From baron + -ry.

Questions about baronry

What does baronry mean?
Baronry means the state or quality of being a baron.
What part of speech is baronry?
Baronry is a noun.
What is the plural of baronry?
The plural of baronry is baronries.

Words near baronry in the dictionary

  1. baronizes
  2. baronizing
  3. baronne
  4. baronnes
  5. baronries
  6. baronry
  7. barons
  8. barons of beef
  9. baronship
  10. baronships
  11. barony

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