noun
viscount
VEYE-kownt
noun
1
A nobleman ranked below an earl or count but above a baron.
"The old estate had belonged to a viscount for three generations."
How to Use Viscount
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA title of nobility, ranking between baron and earl/count.
Word Forms
viscounts plural, Viscounts plural
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Etymology
From Anglo-Norman viscounte, from Medieval Latin vicecomes, literally "vice-count" — built from vice- and count.