1. viscount(n = noun.person) - (in various countries) a son or younger brother or a count;
is a kind of lord, noble, nobleman
2. viscount(n = noun.person) - a British peer who ranks below an earl and above a baron;
is a kind of peer
1. 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,
viscount, n. a British nobleman ranking between an earl and a baron.
Derivative:
viscountcy n. (pl. -ies). viscountship n. viscounty n. (pl. -ies).
Etymology:
ME f. AF viscounte, OF vi(s)conte f. med.L vicecomes -mitis (as VICE-, COUNT(2))
N nobility, rank, condition, distinction, optimacy, blood, pur sang, birth, high descent, order, quality, gentility, blue blood of Castile, ancien regime, high life, haute monde, upper classes, upper ten thousand, the four hundred, elite, aristocracy, great folks, fashionable world, peer, peerage, house of lords, house of peers, lords, lords temporal and spiritual, noblesse, noble, nobleman, lord, lordling, grandee, magnifico, hidalgo, daimio, daimyo, samurai, shizoku, don, donship, aristocrat, swell, three- tailed bashaw, gentleman, squire, squireen, patrician, laureate, gentry, gentlefolk, squirarchy, better sort magnates, primates, optimates, pantisocracy, king, atheling, prince, duke, marquis, marquisate, earl, viscount, baron, thane, banneret, baronet, baronetcy, knight, knighthood, count, armiger, laird, signior, seignior, esquire, boyar, margrave, vavasour, emir, ameer, scherif, sharif, effendi, wali, sahib, chevalier, maharaja, nawab, palsgrave, pasha, rajah, waldgrave, princess, begum, duchess, marchioness, countess, lady, dame, memsahib, Do$a, maharani, rani, personage of distinction, man of distinction, personage of rank, man of rank, personage of mark, man of mark, notables, notabilities, celebrity, bigwig, magnate, great man, star, superstar, big bug, big gun, great gun, gilded rooster, magni nominis umbra, every inch a king, noble, exalted, of rank, princely, titled, patrician, aristocratic, high-, well-born, of gentle blood, genteel, comme il faut, gentlemanlike, courtly, highly respectable, in high quarters, Adel sitzt im Gemuthe nicht im Gebluete, adelig und edel sind zweierlei, noblesse oblige.
1st viscount montgomery of alamein, first viscount haldane of cloan, first viscount nuffield, viscount nelson, viscount northcliffe, viscount st. albans
st, abbr.
1 Saint.
2 stokes.
battle of st mihiel, common st john's wort, creeping st john's wort, great st john's wort, low st andrew's cross, shrubby st john's wort, st andrews's cross, st bernard, st john's day, st john's eve, st john's night, st john's wort, st john's wort family, st joseph, st martin's day, st mihiel, st patrick's day, st peter's wort, st valentine's day
A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta-percha by the action of alcohol or ether. [1913 Webster]