Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The peers of a kingdom considered as a group.
- n. Barons considered as a group.
- n. The rank or dignity of a baron.
- n. A list of barons.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The whole body of British barons; formerly, the nobility or peerage in general.
- n. The dignity or rank of a baron.
- n. The land which gives title to a baron; a barony.
Wiktionary
- n. Barons or nobles collectively
- n. an annotated list of barons or peers
- n. obsolete The dignity or rank of a baron.
- n. obsolete The land which gives title to a baron.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The whole body of barons or peers.
- n. The dignity or rank of a baron.
- n. obsolete The land which gives title to a baron.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the peers of a kingdom considered as a group
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) barnage, from baron + -age, with the loss of a syllable. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“So, while in most of the new monarchies of Europe the subjection or humiliation of the baronage was a primary article of policy, John tried to win his way by lavish gifts of land, while resolutely checking feudalism in government, curtailing local immunities, and guarding the liberties of the towns against noble usurpers.”
“This concept of aristocracy was highly flattering to an already dominant elite, which, since the eleventh century, had been called the 'baronage', 'nobility' and latterly 'the peerage'.”
“Warden, the young wife of John Van Warden, clad in rags, with marred and scarred and toil-calloused hands, bending over the campfire and doing scullion work-she, Vesta, who had been born to the purple to greatest baronage of wealth the world has ever known.”
“He ruled those women by virtue of his superior mentality, his great wealth, and the high place he occupied in the commercial baronage of Hawaii.”
The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii:The House of Pride
“And those three, one royal, two from the ranks of the baronage, the only women in this precinct among the entire nobility of the land.”
“King Stephen waited to attend High Mass before gathering all his baronage about him and setting forth briskly for Oxford.”
“There are among the baronage some families who use several personal variations among their many members and branches.”
“Avenel carries his crest so much above those of the neighbouring baronage, and how it is that men, by valour and wisdom, work their way from the hoddin-gray coat to the cloak of scarlet and gold.”
“Then called he all the baronage together to wit what was the best counsel.”
“So when the king was come thither with all his baronage, and lodged as they seemed best, there was come a damosel the which was sent on message from the great lady Lile of Avelion.”
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