baron : Idioms & Phrases

• noun British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964)
  William Maxwell Aitken; Beaverbrook.
  

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• noun English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)
  1st Baron Verulam; Sir Francis Bacon; Viscount St. Albans; Bacon; Francis Bacon.
  

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• noun English physiologist who conducted research into the function of neurons; 1st baron of Cambridge (1889-1997)
  Edgar Douglas Adrian; Adrian.
  

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• noun German naturalist who explored Central and South America and provided a comprehensive description of the physical universe (1769-1859)
  Baron Alexander von Humboldt; Humboldt.
  

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• noun British general and statesman whose victory at Plassey in 1757 strengthened British control of India (1725-1774)
  Robert Clive; Baron Clive; Clive.
  

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• noun British general and statesman whose victory at Plassey in 1757 strengthened British control of India (1725-1774)
  Robert Clive; Baron Clive; Clive.
  

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• noun French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers (1689-1755)
  Montesquieu; Charles Louis de Secondat.
  

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• noun German naturalist who explored Central and South America and provided a comprehensive description of the physical universe (1769-1859)
  Baron Alexander von Humboldt; Humboldt.
  

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• noun American Revolutionary leader (born in Prussia) who trained the troops under George Washington (1730-1794)
  Steuben.
  

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• noun French naturalist known as the father of comparative anatomy (1769-1832)
  Cuvier; Georges Cuvier; Georges Leopold Chretien Frederic Dagobert Cuvier.
  

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• noun German physiologist and physicist (1821-1894)
  Hermann von Helmholtz; Helmholtz; Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz.
  

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• noun British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970)
  Dowding; Dowdy; Hugh Dowding.
  

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• noun French mathematician who developed Fourier analysis and studied the conduction of heat (1768-1830)
  Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier; Fourier.
  

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• noun German conductor and composer of romantic operas (1786-1826)
  Weber; Carl Maria von Weber.
  

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• noun German philologist noted for his studies of the relation between language and culture (1767-1835)
  Baron Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt; Humboldt.
  

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• noun English surgeon who was the first to use antiseptics (1827-1912)
  Joseph Lister; Lister.
  

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• noun English composer of many successful musicals (some in collaboration with Sir Tim Rice) (born in 1948)
  Lloyd Webber; Andrew Lloyd Webber.
  

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• noun German raconteur who told preposterous stories about his adventures as a soldier and hunter; his name is now associated with any telling of exaggerated stories or winning lies (1720-1797)
  Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Munchhausen; Munchhausen; Munchausen.
  

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• two sirloins not cut asunder at the backbone.

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• the judges of the Court of Exchequer, one of the three ancient courts of England, now abolished.

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• noun English actor best know for his Shakespearean roles (1907-1989)
  Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier; Laurence Olivier; Olivier.
  

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• noun German neurologist noted for his studies of sexual deviance (1840-1902)
  Krafft-Ebing; Richard von Krafft-Ebing.
  

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• noun English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980)
  C. P. Snow; Charles Percy Snow; Snow.
  

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• noun English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)
  1st Baron Verulam; Sir Francis Bacon; Viscount St. Albans; Bacon; Francis Bacon.
  

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• noun German philologist noted for his studies of the relation between language and culture (1767-1835)
  Baron Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt; Humboldt.
  

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• formerly members of the House of Commons, elected by the seven Cinque Ports, two for each port.

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Chief" bar"on

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1. (Eng. Law) The presiding judge of the court of exchequer.

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Court"-bar`on noun

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1. (Law) An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse.

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Cov"ert bar`on

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1. (Law) Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.

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• noun a person who controls an organization dealing in illegal drugs
  drug lord.
  

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• noun British economist (born in India) whose report on social insurance provided the basis for most of the social legislation on which the welfare state in the United Kingdom is based (1879-1963)
  Beveridge; William Henry Beveridge.
  

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• noun British physicist who invented the Kelvin scale of temperature and pioneered undersea telegraphy (1824-1907)
  Kelvin; William Thompson.
  

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• noun English writer of historical romances (1803-1873)
  Lytton; Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton; Bulwer-Lytton.
  

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• noun English historian noted for his history of England (1800-1859)
  Macaulay; Lord Macaulay; Thomas Babington Macaulay.
  

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• noun English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964)
  Simon Marks; Marks.
  

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• noun English sociologist and economist and a central member of the Fabian Society (1859-1947)
  Webb; Sidney Webb; Sidney James Webb.
  

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• noun British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed a nuclear model of the atom (1871-1937)
  First Baron Rutherford; Rutherford; Ernest Rutherford.
  

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• noun British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed a nuclear model of the atom (1871-1937)
  First Baron Rutherford; Rutherford; Ernest Rutherford.
  

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• noun Englishman and Victorian poet (1809-1892)
  Alfred Tennyson; Tennyson; Alfred Lord Tennyson.
  

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• noun English romantic poet notorious for his rebellious and unconventional lifestyle (1788-1824)
  Lord George Gordon Byron; Byron.
  

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• noun English physicist who studied the density of gases and discovered argon; made important contributions to acoustic theory (1842-1919)
  Lord Rayleigh; John William Strutt; Rayleigh.
  

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• noun United States architect who designed the first skyscraper in which a metal skeleton was used (1832-1907)
  Jenny.
  

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