peerage

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: peer=age

CIDE DICTIONARY

peerage, n. [See Peer an equal, and cf. Parage.].

•  The rank or dignity of a peer.  Blackstone.  [1913 Webster]
•  The body of peers; the nobility, collectively.  [1913 Webster]

  "When Charlemain with all his peerage fell."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

peerage, n.
1 peers as a class; the nobility.
2 the rank of peer or peeress (was given a life peerage).
3 a book containing a list of peers with their genealogy etc.

THESAURUS

peerage

FFVs, ancienne noblesse, aristocracy, baronage, baronetage, chivalry, elect, elite, haut monde, high life, high society, knightage, nobility, noblesse, noblesse de robe, old nobility, royalty, the Four Hundred, the classes, upper classes, upper crust, upper ten, upper ten thousand, uppercut

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peerage

Nobility

N nobility, rank, condition, distinction, optimacy, blood, pur sang, birth, high descent, order, quality, gentility, blue blood of Castile, ancien regime, high life, haute monde, upper classes, upper ten thousand, the four hundred, elite, aristocracy, great folks, fashionable world, peer, peerage, house of lords, house of peers, lords, lords temporal and spiritual, noblesse, noble, nobleman, lord, lordling, grandee, magnifico, hidalgo, daimio, daimyo, samurai, shizoku, don, donship, aristocrat, swell, three- tailed bashaw, gentleman, squire, squireen, patrician, laureate, gentry, gentlefolk, squirarchy, better sort magnates, primates, optimates, pantisocracy, king, atheling, prince, duke, marquis, marquisate, earl, viscount, baron, thane, banneret, baronet, baronetcy, knight, knighthood, count, armiger, laird, signior, seignior, esquire, boyar, margrave, vavasour, emir, ameer, scherif, sharif, effendi, wali, sahib, chevalier, maharaja, nawab, palsgrave, pasha, rajah, waldgrave, princess, begum, duchess, marchioness, countess, lady, dame, memsahib, Do$a, maharani, rani, personage of distinction, man of distinction, personage of rank, man of rank, personage of mark, man of mark, notables, notabilities, celebrity, bigwig, magnate, great man, star, superstar, big bug, big gun, great gun, gilded rooster, magni nominis umbra, every inch a king, noble, exalted, of rank, princely, titled, patrician, aristocratic, high-, well-born, of gentle blood, genteel, comme il faut, gentlemanlike, courtly, highly respectable, in high quarters, Adel sitzt im Gemuthe nicht im Gebluete, adelig und edel sind zweierlei, noblesse oblige.