peerage

English

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Etymology

From peer +‎ -age.

Noun

peerage (plural peerages)

1. Peers as a group; the nobility, aristocracy.
2. The rank or title of a peer or peeress.
   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, The Tremarn Case^[1]:

     “Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”

3. A book listing such people and their families.

Related terms

• peerdom

Translations

peers as a group

• Portuguese: pariato (pt) m

the rank or title of a peer

• French: pairie (fr) f
• Norwegian: adelskalender (no) m

• Portuguese: pares (pt) pl

See also

• aristocracy
• bunyip aristocracy