earl
a British peer ranking below a marquess and above a viscount
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,177 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 8,082 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a British peer ranking below a marquess and above a viscount
earl in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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A duke or an earl goes with each story.
Something New · P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse · Chapter 1
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I here create thee Lord High-chamberlain, Chief Secretary to the state and me, Earl of Cornwall, King and Lord of Man.
Edward the Second · Christopher Marlowe · Chapter 1
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Monty, being Earl of Montdidier and Kirkudbrightshire, and a privy councilor, was welcome at the consulate at Mersina, twenty miles away.
The Eye of Zeitoon · Talbot Mundy · Chapter 1
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The earl kept up with him, and neither halted till they had left the wizard oak at a considerable distance behind them.
Windsor Castle · William Harrison Ainsworth · Chapter 1
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The colony was founded in 1811, by the Earl of Selkirk, previously to which it had been a trading-post of the Fur Company.
Snowflakes and Sunbeams · R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne · Chapter 1