- British nobleman - Rank above baron - Six Romans have small tally for nobleman - An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count,
or earl; the sheriff of the county. - A nobleman of the fourth rank, next in order below an
earl and next above a baron; also, his degree or title of nobility. See
Peer, n., 3.
- The vassal or tenant of a baron; one who held under a
baron, and who also had tenants under him; one in dignity next to a
baron; a title of dignity next to a baron.
- Female title - Goes wrong - Lord’s wife has run out of laundry - Lord’s wife seen with Chatterley’s lover! - Noble woman - Peeress - Polite name for a woman
- A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of
these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings
in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary
thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction
within their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and
baron took its place.