viscount

IPA: vˈɪskaʊnt

A member of the peerage, above a baron but below a count or earl.
(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and counts.
The title of a viscount.
A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Examples of "viscount" in Sentences

The viscount is the one whose jewels you just stole.
Thus the word viscount was in Latin vice-comes, in itself a terrible admission.
'The viscount is not supposed to have been unrivalled in the young lady's favour.
Before we pull the rug out from under the Covingtons, Arthur especially, Terence needs to decide if he really wants the designation of viscount.
The wife of a marquess is a marchioness, the wife of an earl is a countess earl is the British equivalent of count, the wife of a viscount is a viscountess, the wife of a baron is a baroness.
But I held firm, and in the end I got a couple of old duchesses and something called a viscount (you don't pronounce the s, which I learned by putting my foot in my mouth) behind the one-way mirror.