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baronet

[ bar-uh-nit, bar-uh-net ]

noun

  1. a member of a British hereditary order of honor, ranking below the barons and made up of commoners, designated by Sir before the name and Baronet, usually abbreviated Bart., after:

    Sir John Smith, Bart.



baronet

/ -ˌnɛt; ˈbærənɪt /

noun

  1. (in Britain) a commoner who holds the lowest hereditary title of honour, ranking below a baron AbbreviationBart.Bt
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of baronet1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; baron, -et
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of baronet1

C15: order instituted 1611, from baron + -et
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The baronet and his wife said the decision was due to a desire to retire and do other things after decades working to maintain the large estate.

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She is also cushioned by wealth, her father being a baronet with connections and a country estate.

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He’s also a baronet, master of an estate near a coal-mining village in the Midlands.

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Lawrence novel about the neglected young wife of an impotent baronet who has an affair with the country estate gamekeeper.

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His father — at least, according to his birth certificate — was Sir Edward Lindsay-Hogg, a baronet of Rotherfield Hall in East Sussex, England.

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