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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
baron
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Cohen, Sacha Baron
drug baron
press baron
robber baron
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
drug
▪ The drug barons have themselves become substantial land holders, effectively controlling several departments.
▪ There's little hope in this film - the forces of law are as bad in their way as the drug barons.
▪ Doctors and accountants are one thing; husbands on the brink of divorce or even drug barons close to capture are another.
▪ The drug baron behind it all is called Cherokee.
▪ The drugs barons often win the support of the poor because they provide the means for entire communities to make a living.
▪ Orders to kill are still issued by the drug barons.
▪ The property dealer, ex-#drug baron Robert Clapley, aims to make a mint.
▪ We pour another glass and vent our spleen on drug barons and dope fiends.
oil
▪ But the sentiment against foreign oil barons is stronger still.
▪ But does Bush ever haul out the millionaire investment banker or oil baron to show whom he will be helping?
▪ Explain in 100. 9 words or less why the oil barons should stop messing with Californians' cars.
robber
▪ The brightest are wasted: the cunning triumph: the robber barons are back.
▪ We all know the stories of greedy capitalists, child-labor exploiters, and robber barons.
▪ Julia Grant socialized with robber barons and was vilified for her role in a gold-market scandal.
▪ The other is the old bludgeon of robber barons, industry consolidation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Colombian drug barons
▪ media baron Rupert Murdoch
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Audley senior was a minor baron, with lands in Gloucestershire as well as Oxfordshire and a long record of service to the Crown.
▪ Hariri is not the first political baron to have risen without the benefit of family connections.
▪ Henry took the homage of the barons and knights of La Marche and then returned to Angers to celebrate Christmas.
▪ I am the baron de Chavigny.
▪ Indeed when Richard marched against Angoulême he made this move after taking counsel with the barons of Poitou.
▪ Over 60 descendants of the rubber barons, who continued exploiting the inhabitants, have been forced to leave.
▪ The drinking public was now aware they were being taken for a ride by the brewing barons.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
baron

Thane \Thane\ (th[=a]n), n. [OE. thein, [thorn]ein, AS. [thorn]egen, [thorn]egn; akin to OHG. degan a follower, warrior, boy, MHG. degen a hero, G. degen hero, soldier, Icel. [thorn]egn a thane, a freeman; probably akin to Gr. te`knon a child, ti`ktein to bear, beget, or perhaps to Goth. 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.

Note: Among the ancient Scots, thane was a title of honor, which seems gradually to have declined in its significance.
--Jamieson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
baron

c.1200, from Old French baron (nominative ber) "baron, nobleman, military leader, warrior, virtuous man, lord, husband," probably from or related to Late Latin baro "man," which is of uncertain origin, perhaps from Frankish *baro "freeman, man;" merged in England with cognate Old English beorn "nobleman."

Wiktionary
baron

n. 1 The male ruler of a barony. 2 A male member of the lowest rank of British nobility. 3 A particular cut of beef, made up of a double sirloin. 4 A person of great power in society, especially in business and politics.

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Baron (disambiguation)

Baron is a title of nobility.

Baron, The Baron or Barons may also refer to:

Baron (name)

The following is a list of people with the name Baron. In many languages, "Baron" refers to the title of nobility; in Hebrew, the fairly common Israeli surname "Bar-On" (usually contracted to Baron) means "son of strength/vigor/potency".

BARON

BARON is a computational system for solving nonconvex optimization problems to global optimality. Purely continuous, purely integer, and mixed-integer nonlinear problems can be solved with the software. BARON is available under the AIMMS and GAMS modeling languages on a variety of platforms. The GAMS/BARON solver is also available on the NEOS Server.

The development of the BARON algorithms and software has been recognized by the 2004 INFORMS Computing Society Prize and the 2006 Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize for excellence in computational mathematical programming from the Mathematical Optimization Society.

Baron (photographer)

Stirling Henry Nahum (1906 - September 1956), or Sterling Henry Nahum (sources differ), known professionally as Baron, was a society and court photographer in the United Kingdom.

He was born in England of Italian Jewish heritage. Having embarked on a career as a photographer, in his thirties he began to find prominence for his pictures of the ballet, and was often found at the Sadler's Wells ballet company. After the war he concentrated on society and celebrity portraits.

A friend of Prince Philip he was appointed a Court Photographer to the British Royal Family, and took the official photographs for many occasions such as the wedding of Philip to Princess Elizabeth in 1947, the christenings of their children Charles and Anne and other occasions. Put forward in 1953 by Prince Philip to provide the official photographs of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, he was to be disappointed. The appointment of Cecil Beaton was preferred by the Queen Mother

The following year, he founded Baron Studios on Park Lane in London's Mayfair, taking commissioned portraits by photographers including Theodore Zichy and Rex Coleman mainly of leading businessmen. However, one notable sitter was Marilyn Monroe, whom in 1954 he went to California to photograph in an outdoor shoot. After only two years of this new venture, however, Baron died at the age of 50, although his studio continued for a further two decades before being sold off in 1974. The Studio's photograph collection was donated to the National Portrait Gallery in 1999.

Usage examples of "baron".

Hungarians promoted the reign of anarchy, by forcing the stoutest barons to discipline their vassals and fortify their castles.

I therefore despatched to the Minister for Foreign Affairs a detailed letter, announcing that Baron Grote, the Prussian Minister at Hamburg, had set off on a visit to Bremen and Lubeck.

Kaiser William used to knock down the castles of the baron robbers has been approximated by his warring tribes.

From these materials, with the counsel and approbation of the patriarch and barons, of the clergy and laity, Godfrey composed the Assise of Jerusalem, a precious monument of feudal jurisprudence.

It is expressly declared in the Assise of Jerusalem, that after instituting, for his knights and barons, the court of peers, in which he presided himself, Godfrey of Bouillon established a second tribunal, in which his person was represented by his viscount.

The baron might possibly have perceived it, but, attributing it to a caprice, feigned ignorance.

Behind these came two pursuivants-at-arms in tabards, and following them a party of a dozen more bannerets and barons.

The war was, no doubt, useful in withdrawing from Wales a restless and dangerous baronage, and in the rebellion of 1174 the hostility of the border barons would have been far more serious if the best warriors of Wales had not been proving their courage on the plains of Ireland.

Baronage of Scrattel and is to be known in future in the style of the Baron of Scrattel, which rank and privilege is and shall rank behind, beneath, and below, the rank and privilege of each and every other Festhold title of nobility at present existing, including but not limited to the former lowest rank of nobility, the Baronage of Foulmarsh.

EL DORADO by Baroness Orczy FOREWORD There has of late years crept so much confusion into the mind of the student as well as of the general reader as to the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel with that of the Gascon Royalist plotter known to history as the Baron de Batz, that the time seems opportune for setting all doubts on that subject at rest.

The identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel is in no way whatever connected with that of the Baron de Batz, and even superficial reflection will soon bring the mind to the conclusion that great fundamental differences existed in these two men, in their personality, in their character, and, above all, in their aims.

According to one or two enthusiastic historians, the Baron de Batz was the chief agent in a vast network of conspiracy, entirely supported by foreign money--both English and Austrian--and which had for its object the overthrow of the Republican Government and the restoration of the monarchy in France.

Whether the power thus ascribed to Baron de Batz by his historians is real or imaginary it is not the purpose of this preface to investigate.

The Baron de Batz himself was an adventurer without substance, save that which he derived from abroad.

Amaranthe, little Cecile Renault--a mere child not sixteen years of age--also men like Michonis and Roussell, faithful servants of de Batz, the Baron de Lezardiere, and the Comte de St.