different between baron vs noble

English

Etymology

From Middle English baroun, in turn borrowed from Old French baron, Medieval Latin bar? (not to be confused with classical b?r? (“simpleton”)), possibly from Frankish *bar? (“servant, man, warrior”), perhaps from *barô (“carrier”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?er- (“to bear”). Possibly cognate with Old English beorn (“man, warrior”). Used in early Germanic law in the sense of hom? (“man, human being”).

A Celtic origin has also been suggested, due to the occurrence of a Latin barones (“servos militum”) as early as the first century (Cornutus, On Persius' Fifth Satire). OED takes this hypothetical Proto-Celtic *bar- (“hero”) to be a figment.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bæ??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b???n/
• Rhymes: -æ??n
• Homophone: barren

Noun

baron (plural barons, feminine baroness)

1. The male ruler of a barony.
2. A male member of the lowest rank of English nobility (the equivalent rank in Scotland is lord).

   Coordinate terms: don, duke, earl, lord, prince, baronet

3. (by extension) A person of great power in society, especially in business and politics.

   Synonyms: magnate, tycoon; see also Thesaurus:important person
4. (Britain, prison slang) A prisoner who gains power and influence by lending or selling tobacco.
   • 1960, Hugh J. Klare, Anatomy of Prison (page 33)

     The first thing a baron does is to accumulate a supply of tobacco. He spends every penny he can earn on laying it in […]

   • 1961, Peter Baker, Time out of life (page 51)

     Nevertheless, from my own agonies of the first few months, after which I did not miss smoking at all, I could appreciate the need of others. It was in this atmosphere of craving that the 'barons' thrived. Barons are prisoners who lend tobacco.

   • 1980, Leonard Michaels, Christopher Ricks, The State of the Language (page 525)

     In British prisons tobacco still remains the gold standard which is made to back every transaction and promise. The official allowance is barely sufficient for individual smoking needs, but tobacco may expensively be borrowed or bought from a baron, possibly through his runner.

5. A baron of beef, a cut made up of a double sirloin.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 34

     Such portentous appetites had Queequeg and Tashtego, that to fill out the vacancies made by the previous repast, often the pale Dough-Boy was fain to bring on a great baron of salt-junk, seemingly quarried out of the solid ox.

6. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euthalia.
7. (law, obsolete) A husband.

   Coordinate term: wife

Derived terms

Related terms

• baroness
• baronial
• baronetcy

Translations

References

• "baron n.", Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989; first published in New English Dictionary, 1885.

Anagrams

• Abron, Barno, Bonar, Borna, NORBA, Nabor, Orban, Rabon, aborn, bonar

Dutch

Etymology

Readjustment from earlier baroen through French influence, from Middle Dutch baroen, from Old French baron, from Frankish *bar?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba??r?n/
• Hyphenation: ba?ron
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

baron m (plural baronnen, diminutive baronnetje n, feminine barones)

1. baron

Derived terms

• barones
• oliebaron

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?baron/
• Hyphenation: ba?ron
• Rhymes: -aron

Noun

baron

1. accusative singular of baro

French

Etymology

From Middle French baron, from Old French baron, from or corresponding to Late Latin or Medieval Latin bar?, bar?nem, possibly from Frankish *baro (“freeman”) or of other Germanic origin; alternatively, of ultimately Celtic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.???/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

baron m (plural barons)

1. (dated) baron, lord, noble landowner

Further reading

• “baron” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• borna

Javanese

Etymology 1

baru +? -an

Noun

baron (krama-ngoko baron)

1. young plant, especially coffee

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Dutch baron (“baron”).

Noun

baron (krama-ngoko baron)

1. a title for European noblemen

References

• "baron" in W. J. S. Poerwadarminta, Bausastra Jawa. J. B. Wolters' Uitgevers-Maatschappij N. V. Groningen, Batavia, 1939

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French baron.

Noun

baron m (plural barons)

1. baron (nobleman)

Descendants

• French: baron

Norman

Noun

baron m (plural barons)

1. Alternative form of bâron

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse barrún, Old French baron and Old High German baro

Noun

baron m (definite singular baronen, indefinite plural baroner, definite plural baronene)

1. a baron

Related terms

• baronesse

References

• “baron” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse barrún, Old French baron and Old High German baro

Noun

baron m (definite singular baronen, indefinite plural baronar, definite plural baronane)

1. a baron

Related terms

• baronesse

References

• “baron” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *baz?n?

Verb

baron

1. to reveal, to make public

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: b?ren
  • Dutch: baren

Further reading

• “baron”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old French

Alternative forms

• baroun, barun, ber

Etymology

From or corresponding to Medieval Latin b?r?, possibly from Frankish *bar? (“freeman”) or of other Germanic origin; alternatively, ultimately of Celtic origin. The nominative form ber corresponds to the nominative bar?.

Noun

baron m (oblique plural barons, nominative singular ber, nominative plural baron)

1. lord, baron (title of nobility)
2. (by extension) husband

Synonyms

• (husband): seignor, mari

Descendants

• Middle French: barom
  • French: baron (historical)
    • Haitian Creole: baron
    • ? German: Baron (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: bâron
• Picard: barôn
• Walloon: baron
• ? Middle Armenian: ????? (paron)
  • Armenian: ????? (paron)
• ? Middle English: baroun, baron, barun, barone, baroon, beron
  • English: baron
  • Scots: baron
• ? Middle Dutch: baroen
  • Dutch: baron (readjustment)
• ? Middle High German: bar?n
• ? Middle Irish: barún
  • Irish: barún

Polish

Etymology

From French baron, from Middle French baron, from Old French baron, from or corresponding to Late Latin or Medieval Latin bar?, bar?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba.r?n/

Noun

baron m pers (feminine baronowa)

1. baron, lord

Declension

Further reading

• baron in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• baron in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French baron.

Noun

baron m (plural baroni)

1. baron

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Old French baron

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?ro?n/
• Hyphenation: ba?ron

Noun

bàr?n m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. baron (title of nobility)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old French baron

Pronunciation

Noun

baron c (feminine: baronessa)

1. a baron, a ruler of a barony

Declension

Anagrams

• banor, bonar, borna, nabor

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French noble, from Latin n?bilis (“knowable, known, well-known, famous, celebrated, high-born, of noble birth, excellent”), from n?scere, gn?scere (“to know”).

Displaced native Middle English athel (“noble”) (from Old English æþele) and Middle English hathel, hathelle (“noble, nobleman”) (from the merger of Old English æþele (“nobleman”) and Old English hæleþ (“hero”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n??b?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?no?b?l/
• Rhymes: -??b?l
• Hyphenation: no?ble

Noun

noble (plural nobles)

1. An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood. [from 14th c.]

   Antonyms: commoner, plebeian

2. (historical) A medieval gold coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries, usually valued at 6s 8d. [from 14th c.]
   • 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:

     I lyked no thynge his playe, / For yf I had not quyckely fledde the touche, / He had plucte oute the nobles of my pouche.

   • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:

     And who shall then stick closest to ye, and excite others? not he who takes up armes for cote and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegelt.

   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, page 93:

     There, before the high altar, as the choir's voices soared upwards to the blue, star-flecked ceiling, Henry knelt and made his offering of a ‘noble in gold’, 6s 8d.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:nobleman

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

noble (comparative nobler or more noble, superlative noblest or most noble)

1. Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character.

   Synonyms: great, honorable

   Antonyms: despicable, ignoble, mean, vile

2. Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid.

3. Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn.

   Synonym: superior

   Antonyms: inferior, plebeian

4. (geometry, of a polyhedron) Both isohedral and isogonal.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• honorable

Further reading

• noble in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• noble in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• noble at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Bolen, Nobel

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin n?bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?n?.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?n?.ble/

Adjective

noble (masculine and feminine plural nobles)

1. noble

Derived terms

• gas noble
• noblement
• noblesa

Noun

noble m or f (plural nobles)

1. noble

Further reading

• “noble” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “noble” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “noble” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “noble” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French noble, borrowed from Latin n?bilis according to the TLFi dictionary.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?bl/

Adjective

noble (plural nobles)

1. noble, aristocratic
2. (of material) non-synthetic, natural; fine
3. noble, worthy (thoughts, cause etc.)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Danish: nobel
• ? German: nobel

Noun

noble m or f (plural nobles)

1. noble (person who is noble)

References

• “noble” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Further reading

• “noble” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?no?bl?/

Adjective

noble

1. inflection of nobel:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French noble, from Latin n?bilis.

Adjective

noble

1. noble

Descendants

• English: noble

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin n?bilis.

Adjective

noble m or f (plural nobles)

1. noble

Old French

Etymology

From Latin n?bilis.

Adjective

noble m (oblique and nominative feminine singular noble)

1. noble; upper-class; well-bred

   Synonyms: avenant, cortois

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin n?bilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?noble/, [?no.??le]

Adjective

noble (plural nobles)

1. noble

Derived terms

Related terms

• nobleza

Swedish

Adjective

noble

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of nobel.

Anagrams

• Nobel, nobel