viscount
IPA: vˈɪskaʊnt
noun
- 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.
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Examples of "viscount" in Sentences
- The viscount was obliged to decline the appointment.
- She was the granddaughter of the first Viscount Weymouth.
- The titles became extinct on the death of the 9th Viscount in 1955.
- A grandson of the first Viscount and a member of the House of Commons.
- On the death of the 9th Viscount in 1778 the Viscountcy became extinct.
- The peerages became extinct on the death of the third Viscount in 1741.
- In 1989 he was awarded the title of Viscount by the King of the Belgians.
- Subsequently the disgraced viscount devoted himself to study and writing.
- As the heir apparent of the Marquess, he used the courtesy title of Viscount.
- The Viscount of Narbonne was the secular ruler of Narbonne in the Middle Ages.
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