- 1男爵；（商業）大亨、巨頭，如 oil baron 石油大亨
(1) A man who holds a lower level of noble title in Britain and some other countries. (2) More commonly today, a powerful businessperson who controls a lot of one industry - 'an oil baron,' 'a media baron' - someone with huge power and money in that area.
From the word’s history
From Middle English baroun, from Old French baron, from Latin baro 'man'.
源自古法文 baron，來自拉丁文 baro「男人」。
組成Probably comes from an old French/Latin word simply meaning 'man' or 'warrior.'
原始詞典資料11 筆記錄
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Baronname
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A surname from French
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A surname from German
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A surname from Polish
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A surname from Ukrainian
baronnoun/ˈbæɹən/
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The male ruler of a barony.
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A male member of the lowest rank of English nobility (the equivalent rank in Scotland is lord).
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A person of great power in society, especially in business and politics.
- railroad baron
- tech baron
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slangA prisoner who gains power and influence by lending or selling goods such as tobacco.
- The first thing a baron does is to accumulate a supply of tobacco. He spends every penny he can earn on laying it in […]
- 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.
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A baron of beef, a cut made up of a double sirloin.
- 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.
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Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euthalia.
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obsoletelawA husband.
- baron and femme
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