A member of the peerage above a baron but below a count or earl. (noun)
Examples of word viscount
Before we pull the rug out from under the Covingtons, Arthur especially, Terence needs to decide if he really wants the designation of viscount.
Thus the word viscount was in Latin vice-comes, in itself a terrible admission.
'The viscount is not supposed to have been unrivalled in the young lady's favour.
But I held firm, and in the end I got a couple of old duchesses and something called a viscount (you don't pronounce the s, which I learned by putting my foot in my mouth) behind the one-way mirror.
The viscount is the one whose jewels you just stole.
The wife of a marquess is a marchioness, the wife of an earl is a countess earl is the British equivalent of count, the wife of a viscount is a viscountess, the wife of a baron is a baroness.