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bar·on·et

(băr′ə-nĭt, băr′ə-nĕt′)

1. A man holding a British hereditary title of honor reserved for commoners, ranking immediately below the barons and above all orders of knighthood except the Garter.

2. Used as the title for such a man.

[Middle English, diminutive of baron, baron; see baron.]

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baronet

(ˈbærənɪt; -ˌnɛt)

(Heraldry) (in Britain) a commoner who holds the lowest hereditary title of honour, ranking below a baron. Abbreviation: Bart. or Bt

[C15: order instituted 1611, from baron + -et]

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bar•on•et

(ˈbær ə nɪt, ˌbær əˈnɛt)

n.

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, usu. abbreviated Bart., after: Sir John Smith, Bart.

[1350–1400]

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Noun

baronet - a member of the British order of honor; ranks below a baron but above a knight; "since he was a baronet he had to be addressed as Sir Henry Jones, Bart."

Bart

aristocrat, blue blood, patrician - a member of the aristocracy

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baronetti

baronetto

baronet

[ˈbærənɪt] N → baronet m

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baronet

[ˈbærənɛt ˈbærənət] (British) n (= nobleman) → baronnet m

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baronet

n → Baronet m

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baronet

[ˈbærənɪt] n → baronetto

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Tinker, flinging down the coin; it's only baronets as cares about farthings."

Among the most respected of the names beginning in C which the Court-Guide contained, in the year 18--, was that of Crawley, Sir Pitt, Baronet, Great Gaunt Street, and Queen's Crawley, Hants.

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He must have gained Sir Jervis Redwood's favor and confidence--and he might even have been a guest at the baronet's country seat--when Cecilia's letter arrived.

She would once more have treated the baronet's communication with contempt--but for the discovery that it contained an offer of employment in London, addressed to herself.

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I had an interview with the baronet in his study after breakfast, and I told him all that I had seen.

The baronet has been in communication with the architect who prepared the plans for Sir Charles, and with a contractor from London, so that we may expect great changes to begin here soon.

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Why, the gayest feather in Miss Monflathers's cap, and the brightest glory of Miss Monflathers's school, was a baronet's daughter--the real live daughter of a real live baronet--who, by some extraordinary reversal of the Laws of Nature, was not only plain in features but dull in intellect, while the poor apprentice had both a ready wit, and a handsome face and figure.

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Then followed the history and rise of the ancient and respectable family, in the usual terms; how it had been first settled in Cheshire; how mentioned in Dugdale, serving the office of high sheriff, representing a borough in three successive parliaments, exertions of loyalty, and dignity of baronet, in the first year of Charles II, with all the Marys and Elizabeths they had married; forming altogether two handsome duodecimo pages, and concluding with the arms and motto:--"Principal seat, Kellynch Hall, in the county of Somerset," and Sir Walter's handwriting again in this finale:--

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'Oh no, indeed, I don't see very far into things, Sir Mulberry,' replied Mrs Nickleby, in a tone of voice which left the baronet to infer that she saw very far indeed.

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Yes; I had told her so, either before or after that strange question of hers, when she had asked me so distrustfully if I knew many men of the rank of Baronet. Either before or after--my mind was not calm enough, then, to remember which.

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Sir Leicester Dedlock is only a baronet, but there is no mightier baronet than he.

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But he himself was in a little room adjoining, at work with his turning apparatus, and he called to the baronet to join him there.