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(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.
男爵；（商業）大亨、巨頭，如 oil baron 石油大亨
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
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
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
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。