Earl

Proper noun

 * 1) The title of an earl.
 * 2)   from the English noun earl.
 * 3) * 1922 F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
 * "Of course Gladys and Eleanor, having graced the last generation of heroines and being at present in their social prime, will be passed on to the next generation of shopgirls -"
 * "Displacing Ella and Stella," interrupted Dick.
 * "And Pearl and Jewel,", Gloria added cordially, " and Earl and Elmer and Minnie."
 * 1) * 1961 Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road, Vintage Contemporaries, 2000, ISBN 0375708448, page 74
 * - - - in a world of mandatory diminutives, a corporation of jolly Bills and Jacks and Herbs and Teds in which an unabbreviable given name like Earl must have been a minor handicap, "Oat" was the best that could be done for a man with the given name of Otis.
 * 1)  for service in the household of an earl, or from a nickname.

Related terms

 * Earle
 * Earlene
 * Earline

Thesaurus
Brahman, archduke, aristocrat, armiger, baron, baronet, blue blood, count, daimio, duke, esquire, gentleman, grand duke, grandee, hidalgo, lace-curtain, laird, landgrave, lord, lordling, magnate, magnifico, margrave, marquis, noble, nobleman, optimate, palsgrave, patrician, peer, seigneur, seignior, silk-stocking, squire, swell, thoroughbred, upper-cruster, viscount, waldgrave

Translations

 * Bengali: আর্ল


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Anagrams

 * lare
 * lear
 * rale
 * real