meaning of viscount
1. An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count, or earl; the sheriff of the county.
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, n. , 3.
3. a British peer who ranks below an earl and above a baron
Related Words
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