earl
(noun) a British peer ranking below a marquess and above a viscount
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Earl
The title of an earl.
(chiefly, US) A male given name from English from the English noun earl.
A surname for service in the household of an earl, or from a nickname.
A female given name
• Arel, Elar, Lare, Lear, Rael, Raël, Real, lare, lear, rale, real
earl (plural earls)
(nobility) A British or Irish nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess; equivalent to a European count. A female using the style is termed a countess.
(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called counts and viscounts.
• Arel, Elar, Lare, Lear, Rael, Raël, Real, lare, lear, rale, real
Source: Wiktionary
Earl, n. Etym: [OE. eorl, erl, AS. eorl man, noble; akin to OS. erl boy, man, Icel. jarl nobleman, count, and possibly to Gr. arshan man. Cf. Jarl.]
Definition: A nobleman of England ranking below a marquis, and above a viscount. The rank of an earl corresponds to that of a count (comte) in France, and graf in Germany. Hence the wife of an earl is still called countess. See Count.
Earl, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The needlefish. [Ireland]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 December 2024
(noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; “thematic vowels are part of the stem”
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