What is the meaning of Baron?

A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount.

Source: Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), via OPTED

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