Viscount

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Viscount \Vis"count`\, n. [OE. vicounte, OF. visconte, vescunte,
     F. vicomte, LL. vicecomes; L. vice (see {Vice}, a.) + comes a
     companion, LL., a count. See {Count}.]
     1. (O. Eng. Law) An officer who formerly supplied the place
        of the count, or earl; the sheriff of the county.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. 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. [Eng.] --Chaucer.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  viscount
       n 1: (in various countries) a son or younger brother or a count
       2: a British peer who ranks below an earl and above a baron

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "viscount":
     Brahman, archduke, aristocrat, armiger, baron, baronet, blue blood,
     count, daimio, duke, earl, esquire, gentleman, grand duke, grandee,
     hidalgo, lace-curtain, laird, landgrave, lord, lordling, magnate,
     magnifico, margrave, marquis, noble, nobleman, optimate, palsgrave,
     patrician, peer, seigneur, seignior, silk-stocking, squire, swell,
     thoroughbred, upper-cruster, waldgrave