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US
/ˈvɪskaʊnt/
]
[ UK /vˈaɪkaʊnt/ ]
[ UK /vˈaɪkaʊnt/ ]
NOUN
- (in various countries) a son or younger brother or a count
- a British peer who ranks below an earl and above a baron
How To Use viscount In A Sentence
- The Daily Mail is owned by a gentleman named "Harold Jonathan Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere," whose net worth exceeds one billion US dollars. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Britain's Massive Anti-Austerity Strike: Could It Happen Here?
- Immediately, her eyes sought out the handsome viscount.
- Viscount Kilgobbin '; various devices of' caprine 'significance, heads, horns, and hoofs, profusely decorating the frame. Lord Kilgobbin
- Thirty gowns each, your highness, ten capes and five habits for both Princess Gayle and the viscountess as well.
- Here the Viscount lay back among his pillows and stared up at the tester of the bed, and his gaze was still directed thitherwards when he spoke: The Amateur Gentleman
- Substantial alterations were carried out by the fourth viscount, who had the front of the house partly stuccoed and the staircase lined with mirrors in imitation of Versailles.
- And once a royal messenger (called a pursuivant-at-arms) came down in person, and carried the great lady to London, and there she stayed many days, and was threatened with many things and great punishments, yea, even to be tried by the Lord Jeffreys for high treason, in resisting the king's order to deliver up her grandchild to its natural guardian -- which was its father, the Viscount Mallerden, now created by royal favour Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
- But from 1385, the establishment of superior titles of duke, marquis, and viscount pushed barons into the lowest rank of the nobility.
- The new viscount, John's cousin, had once been a close friend of Julia's.
- Her name danced in illustrious company; here were dukes and earls and viscounts; a sprinkling of the foreign element: begums, emirs, the nation's guests. Half A Chance