BARONET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does baronet mean? 

• BARONET (noun)
  The noun BARONET has 1 sense:

1. a member of the British order of honor; ranks below a baron but above a knight

  Familiarity information: BARONET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARONET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the British order of honor; ranks below a baron but above a knight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

baronet; Bart

Context example:

since he was a baronet he had to be addressed as Sir Henry Jones, Bart.

Hypernyms ("baronet" is a kind of...):

aristocrat; blue blood; patrician (a member of the aristocracy)

Derivation:

baronetize (confer baronetcy upon)

 Context examples 

Indeed I am afraid she will, replied Henry; I am afraid she will be very constant, unless a baronet should come in her way; that is Frederick's only chance.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

There was not a baronet from A to Z whom her feelings could have so willingly acknowledged as an equal.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Bertram is certainly well off for a cadet of even a baronet's family.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In the yellow glare of the carriage-lamp I saw the baronet look up at our windows, and if hatred could have killed, his eyes would have been as deadly as his pistol.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The body of the unfortunate baronet had been removed, and all else remained as we had seen it in the morning.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But Mrs. Morland knew so little of lords and baronets, that she entertained no notion of their general mischievousness, and was wholly unsuspicious of danger to her daughter from their machinations.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The baronet, nevertheless, is not unlikely to marry again; he is quite fool enough.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

A very tall man, who showed a pair of broad, bottle-green shoulders high above his neighbours, was looking very hard in our direction, and I assured myself that a quick exchange of almost imperceptible signals was going on between him and the Corinthian baronet.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To be a second time disappointed in the same way was an instance of very severe ill-luck; and his indignation was such, that had it not been for delicacy towards his friend, and his friend's youngest sister, he believed he should certainly attack the baronet on the absurdity of his proceedings, and argue him into a little more rationality.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Cautions against the violence of such noblemen and baronets as delight in forcing young ladies away to some remote farm-house, must, at such a moment, relieve the fulness of her heart.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)