earl has definitions from the field of sociology
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[ noun ] Man's first name, popularity rank in the U.S. is 98
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[ noun ] (sociology) a British peer ranking below a marquess and above a viscount

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(John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)

Thomas_Douglas , fifth Earl of Selkirk , a noble humanitarian Scot concerned with the plight of the crofters of his native Highlands , conceived a plan to settle them in the valley of the Red_River of the North .

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peer Montfort

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 1950
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