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baronetcy

baronetcy

1 9.9
A title passed down in a family that gives someone social status in Britain
  • noun
  • /ˈbɛrəˌnɛtsi/
  • UK
: baronetazgo
  • MMM, WHAT WITH HIS ?20,000 AND HIS BARONETCY AND EVERYTHING.
  • baronetcy from his father

Examples

  • Google released Android to strengthen the other barons just enough to balance the growing power of the Dark Earl Jobs, who had tried to capture the whole kingdom (both the throne and the other baronetcies) for himself and become absolute dictator of the mobile world.

    Blog text (1)

  • And so Harry Ingram of the Palms became the legitimate holder of the baronetcy.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his fourteen-year-old son.

  • This pioneering work earned him a baronetcy.

  • Lord and Lady Masham cannot have lived for many years at Otes, but after he succeeded his father in the baronetcy, Lord Masham did move there from Langley.

Synonyms

baronetage
vsbaronetcy
  • UK
1 9.9

The group of people who have an inherited title 'Sir' passed down in families

refers to the individual hereditary title rather than the collective group

Surface Forms

baronetcy singular
baronetcies plural

Morphology

baronetcy = baronet (transparent) = baron + et + cy

The noun is a regular abstract noun formed from 'baronet' with the suffix '-cy', denoting the rank or state associated with a baronet.

Etymology

The word baronetcy comes from baronet, which in turn comes from baron plus the small ending -et that meant 'little baron'. The ending -cy means 'state' or 'rank', so a baronetcy is the 'rank' or title a baronet has, often passed down in the family.