viscount

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1. viscount - Noun

2. viscount - Adjective

3. Viscount - Proper noun

Meaning

An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count, or earl; the sheriff of the county.

A nobleman of the fourth rank, next in order below an earl and next above a baron; also, his degree or title of nobility. See Peer, n., 3.

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After Colston’s removal, attention north of the border turned to the statue of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, in Edinburgh’s St Andrew Square. Source: Internet

After the war, he was elevated with the title of shishaku ( viscount ) under the kazoku peerage system. Source: Internet

Amid her search for her mother, Enola becomes engulfed in another puzzle after meeting the young Viscount Tewksbury (Louis Partridge), who runs away from home and is being hunted down by a mysterious killer. Source: Internet

An English force of 160 ships and 12,000 troops under Viscount Lisle was ready at Portsmouth by early June, before the French were ready to set sail, and an ineffective pre-emptive strike was made in the middle of the month. Source: Internet

He is in the House of Lords as the Rt Hon Viscount Thurso. Source: Internet

Earl Spencer has four children with his first wife, Lady Kitty Spencer, Lady Eliza Spencer, Lady Amelia Spencer, Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp, and two children with his second wife, Edmund Spencer and Lady Lara Spencer. Source: Internet

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