baron

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈbæɹən/|/ˈbaɹən/    美 /ˈbæɹən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The male ruler of a barony.
  2. A male member of the lowest rank of English nobility (the equivalent rank in Scotland is lord).
  3. A person of great power in society, especially in business and politics. broadly
    — railroad baron
  4. A prisoner who gains power and influence by lending or selling goods such as tobacco. UK,slang
    — The first thing a baron does is to accumulate a supply of tobacco. He spends every penny he can earn on laying it in […]
  5. A baron of beef, a cut made up of a double sirloin.
    — Such portentous appetites had Queequeg and Tashtego, that to fill out the vacancies made by the previous repast, often the pale Dough-Boy was fain to bring on a great baron of salt-junk, seemingly quarried out of the solid ox.
  6. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euthalia.
  7. A husband. obsolete
    — baron and femme
    husband and wife

词形变化

barons plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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相关词
baroness baronetcy baronial baronne

词源

From Middle English baroun, from Old French baron, from Latin barōnem, from Proto-West Germanic *barō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear”). Cognate with Old High German *baro (“human being, man, freeman”), Old English bora (“a man who bears responsibility, one who is in charge, a ruler”), and perhaps to Old English beorn (“man, warrior”). Used in early Germanic law in the sense of "man, human being".
A Celtic origin has also been suggested; see the quote under sense 3 of Latin barō. However, the OED takes the hypothetical Proto-Celtic *bar- (“hero”) to be a figment.
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