Red Baron
A hotshot fighter pilot.
Do you think you're the next Red Baron?
baron
/ˈbæɹən/
noun 5name 4
Collocations
3(noun.) powerful businessman
ADJ
media, newspaper, press
cocaine, drug, oil
He was arrested for being one of the country's most powerful drug barons.
robber
Definitions
noun
1
The male ruler of a barony.
2
A male member of the lowest rank of English nobility (the equivalent rank in Scotland is lord).
3
A person of great power in society, especially in business and politics.
There were a few exotics among them — some South American boys, sons of Argentine beef barons, one or two Russians, and even a Siamese prince, or someone who was described as a prince.
British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
4
A prisoner who gains power and influence by lending or selling goods such as tobacco.
The first thing a baron does is to accumulate a supply of tobacco. He spends every penny he can earn on laying it in […]
Nevertheless, from my own agonies of the first few months, after which I did not miss smoking at all, I could appreciate the need of others. It was in this atmosphere of craving that the 'barons' thrived. Barons are prisoners who lend tobacco.
5
A baron of beef, a cut made up of a double sirloin.
Such portentous appetites had Queequeg and Tashtego, that to fill out the vacancies made by the previous repast, often the pale Dough-Boy was fain to bring on a great baron of salt-junk, seemingly quarried out of the solid ox.
name
1
A surname from French
2
A surname from German
3
A surname from Polish
4
A surname from Ukrainian
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
robber baron
In Europe, an aristocrat who charged exorbitant fees or otherwise exacted money from people who journeyed across land or waterways which he controlled.
Men who made it a custom to travel the trail to Dawson, likened him to a robber baron, perched in his fortress and exacting toll from the caravans that used his ill-kept roads.
Example Bank
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There were a few exotics among them — some South American boys, sons of Argentine beef barons, one or two Russians, and even a Siamese prince, or someone who was described as a prince.
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British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that pr
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The first thing a baron does is to accumulate a supply of tobacco. He spends every penny he can earn on laying it in […]
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I thought that you were a baron.
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Father Zachary urged these perils to the Baron with all the force of monkish rhetoric.
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Sacha Baron Cohen's parodies are full of silly stereotypes and antigoyish insinuations, but I still like them in a pure comedic sense.
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In some senses, baron is marked as slang, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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