adjective
Other Word Forms
- nonbaronial adjective
Etymology
Origin of baronial
Example Sentences
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The novel begins with the birth of a boy named Lajos to his aloof, baronial parents, Sándor and Mária von Lázár.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
Carr is the new custodian of the 19th Century baronial landmark near Eyemouth.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026
Frederick Douglass depicted his plantation in Maryland as resembling “what the baronial domains were during the Middle Ages in Europe.”
From Salon • Nov. 10, 2024
The focal point was the baronial great hall, two stories in height and an essentially Renaissance Revival setting, with a towering stained-glass window of a peacock in a garden by Louis Comfort Tiffany.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2023
He lived out there, eight miles from any neighbor, in masculine solitude in what might be called the halfacre gunroom of a baronial splendor.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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