Noun: barony
| Singular | barony |
| Plural | baronies |
Sample Sentences
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In Ireland... an head constable for each barony or hundred, being 252. [a. 1687, W. Petty, The Political Anatomy of Ireland, page 326:]
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The Baronies appear to have been formed successively on the submission of the Irish chiefs... the territory of each constituting a barony. [1873, General Report on the Census of England, volume IV, page 181]
Nouns inflected like barony
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English baronie, baronye, from Old French baronie, equivalent to baron + -y. See: Middle English Nouns '
baronie'.
Verbs referencing "barony"
Polish Nouns
baronia.