peerage
the body of peers of a country or state.
the rank or dignity of a peer.
a book listing the peers and giving their genealogies.
Origin of peerage
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How to use peerage in a sentence
It was intended, instead, to be based on “peerage,” where all players are equal.
How Four Upstarts Built and Crashed the Anti-Facebook | Jake Whitney | November 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThink aesthetics as politics, and academic credentials as peerage.
‘Downton Abbey’ Democrats May Cost their Party the Senate | Lloyd Green | March 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDuchess is the highest rank in the English peerage (in descending order the ranks go duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron).
Kate Middleton: Why Be a Duchess When You Can Be a Princess? | Tom Sykes | August 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut Blair has said publicly that he does not want a peerage.
Tony Blair May Be Planning a Political Comeback but in What Role It’s Hard to Imagine | Peter Popham | May 5, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTEstates sufficient to support the highest rank in the peerage were distributed among his illegitimate children.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington Macaulay
The meanest hind was ennobled by the accolade of martyrdom to the loftiest peerage of the skies.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry WithrowThe other notice which Sir William had given for a committee on peerage reform was not followed up.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. NolanThe satisfaction consequent on Pitt's accession to power faded at the news that he had accepted a peerage as Earl of Chatham.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. | William HuntGeorge, who did not approve of a large increase in the peerage, was forced to yield to his minister's exigencies.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. | William Hunt
British Dictionary definitions for peerage
/ (ˈpɪərɪdʒ) /
the whole body of peers; aristocracy
the position, rank, or title of a peer
(esp in the British Isles) a book listing the peers and giving genealogical and other information about them
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