Definition of "baronet" []

• A man holding a British hereditary title of honor reserved for commoners, ranking immediately below the barons and above all orders of knighthood except the Garter. (noun)
• Used as the title for such a man. (noun)

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• "There are also reasons for connecting the portrait with one of a certain English baronet named Sheffield, who was likewise in"
• "LYNMERE, at tea-time, returned from his ride, with a fixed plan of frightening or disgusting the baronet from the alliance; with Eugenia, herself, he imagined the attempt would be vain, for he did not conceive it possible any woman who had eyes could be induced to reject him."
• "They tell me that his father was made what they call a baronet because he set a broken arm for one of those twenty royal dukes that England has to pay for. ""