Word Meanings - BARONAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The whole body of barons or peers. The baronage of the kingdom. Bp. Burnet. 2. The dignity or rank of a baron. 3. The land which gives title to a baron.

Related words: (words related to BARONAGE)

• TITLELESS
  Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.
• BARONET
  A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners. Note: The order was founded
• TITLED
  Having or bearing a title.
• BARONIAL
  Pertaining to a baron or a barony. "Baronial tenure." Hallam.
• TITLER
  A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• BARONAGE
  1. The whole body of barons or peers. The baronage of the kingdom. Bp. Burnet. 2. The dignity or rank of a baron. 3. The land which gives title to a baron.
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• BARONG
  A kind of cutting weapon with a thick back and thin razorlike edge, used by the Moros of the Philippine Islands.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHOLE-HOOFED
  Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
• BARON
  A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife. Cowell. Baron of beef, two sirloins not cut asunder at the backbone. -- Barons of the Cinque Ports, formerly members of the House of Commons, elected by the seven Cinque Ports, two for each port.
• BURNET
  A genus of perennial herbs ; especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet. Burnet moth , in England, a handsome moth , with crimson spots on the wings. -- Burnet saxifrage. See Saxifrage. -- Canadian burnet, a marsh plant . --
• KINGDOMED
  Having a kingdom or the dignity of a king; like a kingdom. "Twixt his mental and his active parts, Kingdom'd Achilles in commotion rages And batters down himself. Shak.
• WHOLESALE
  1. Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price. 2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter. "A time for
• KINGDOM
  1. The rank, quality, state, or attributes of a king; royal authority; sovereign power; rule; dominion; monarchy. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Ps. cxiv. 13. When Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• TITLE-PAGE
  The page of a book which contains it title. The world's all title-page; there's no contents. Young.
• BARONETAGE
  1. State or rank of a baronet. 2. The collective body of baronets.
• WHOLE-SOULED
  Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted.
• UNTITLED
  1. Not titled; having no title, or appellation of dignity or distinction. Spenser. 2. Being without title or right; not entitled. Shak.
• CATCH TITLE
  A short expressive title used for abbreviated book lists, etc.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• UNWHOLE
  Not whole; unsound.