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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈbæ.ɹə.ni/

名詞

barony (plural baronies)

1. The domain of a baron or baroness, usually as part of a larger kingdom or empire.
   1. (historical, Ireland) Synonym of hundred, an English administrative division originally reckoned as comprising 100 hides and in various numbers composing counties.
      • a. 1687, W. Petty, The Political Anatomy of Ireland, page 326:

        In Ireland... an head constable for each barony or hundred, being 252.

      • 1873, General Report on the Census of England, volume IV, page 181:

        The Baronies appear to have been formed successively on the submission of the Irish chiefs... the territory of each constituting a barony.

   2. (Scotland) Any large manor or estate, regardless of its owner's rank.
2. (obsolete) The baronage: the body of barons in a realm.
3. Baronship, the rank or position of a baron.
4. (law) The legal tenure of a baron's land; military tenure.

同意語

• (administrative division): See hundred

下位語

• (administrative division): See carucate (⁄₁₀₀ barony & for other subdivisions)

派生語

• burgh of barony
• Evenwood and Barony

参考

• county
• duchy
• margravate
• marquisate
• nobility
• kingdom
• principality
• regality
• royalty
• viscounty

アナグラム

• Brayon, Raybon, baryon