Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

belted earl

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.78 in modern English

Syllables: belt-ed earl
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An earl whose title goes back to the period prior to the 18th century when a sword and belt received from the monarch were tokens of that title.

Example Sentences

"This William was the sixth belted earl of that house of Douglas."
"It was pretty interesting to imagine things about them—to imagine that perhaps the girl who sat next to you was really the daughter of a belted earl, who had been stolen away from her parents in her infancy by a cruel nurse who died before she could confess."
"It was Boone Havock and his immense and parrot-squawking wife Queenie who were the great people, the belted earl and terraced countess, of the occasion […]"

Inflected Forms

belted earls (plural)

Phrases

belted knight

Frequently Paired Words

belted knight

Questions

What does belted earl mean?: An earl whose title goes back to the period prior to the 18th century when a sword and belt received from the monarch were tokens of that title.

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