peerage
English
Etymology
From Middle English perage, equivalent to peer + -age.
Noun
peerage (countable and uncountable, plural peerages)
- Peers as a group; the nobility, aristocracy.
- The rank or title of a peer or peeress.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in 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. […]”
- A book listing such people and their families.
Synonyms
Translations
peers as a group
the rank or title of a peer
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book listing peers and their families
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