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noun - a British peer ranking below a marquess and above a viscount
A British nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquis, corresponding to a count in continental Europe.
Used as a title for such a nobleman.
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| Viscounts & barons needn't bother inviting me over -- I only hobnob with at least this grade of nobleman |
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| A British nobleman ranking above a viscount & below a marquess |
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| a British nobleman ranking above a viscount and below a marquess. |
| a British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount |
| (the title of) a British man of high social rank, between a marquis and a viscount: |
| A British nobleman ranking above a viscount and below a marquess. |
| A British nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquis, corresponding to a count in continental Europe. |
| Used as a title for such a nobleman. |
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An earl () is a member of the nobility. The title is Anglo-Saxon in origin, akin to the Scandinavian form jarl, and meant "chieftain", particularly a chieftain set to rule a territory in a king's stead. In Scandinavia, it became obsolete in the Middle Ages and was replaced by duke (hertig/hertug/hertog). In later medieval Britain, it became the equivalent of the continental count (in England in the earlier period, it was more akin to a duke; in Scotland it assimilated the concept of mormaer). However, earlier in Scandinavia, jarl could also mean a sovereign prince. For example, the rulers of several of the petty kingdoms of Norway had the title of jarl and in many cases they had no less power than their neighbours who had the title of king. Alternative names for the rank equivalent to "Earl/Count" in the nobility structure are used in other countries, such as the hakushaku of the post-restoration Japanese Imperial era. * In modern Britain, an earl is a member of the peerage, ranking belo |
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