earl

IPA: ˈɝɫ

(nobility) A British or Irish nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess; equivalent to a European count. A female using the style is termed a countess.
(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called counts and viscounts.
The title of an earl.
(chiefly US) A male given name from English from the English noun earl.
A surname originating as an occupation for service in the household of an earl, or from a nickname.
A female given name.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Las Animas County, Colorado.
An unincorporated community in Callaway County, Missouri.
A town in Cleveland County, North Carolina.
An unincorporated community in Springbrook, Washburn County, Wisconsin.

Examples of "earl" in Sentences

The earl is a quiet man, but he has a quick temper.
Would Mr. Hay stay here if the earl were an evil man?
Even your name, too-generous earl, is in the horrid catalogue.
Intolerable enough, perhaps, to drive title earl to another sort of revenge.
May 10, 2005 at 11: 22 AM earl is that way - only with guitars - we have guitars everywhere ...
The earl is pursuing him now, not only as his daughter's seducer, but as a swindler and a thief.
Her own instincts told her that the earl was a complex individual, formed by a tragedy and by the isolation of his home.
In pursuance of his usurping commission, the earl is now marching rapidly towards the Lothians, in the hope of intercepting you in your progress.
And then she called the earl a number of names that Pearson had never before heard uttered by a lady … and he was using that term in its loosest vernacular.
"I wished to learn its most pregnable part," replied Edwin, his young heart beating with triumph at these encomiums from his commander; "and particularly where the good earl is confined that we might make our attack directly to the point."