1) All the nobles 2) Aristocracy 3) Baronage 4) Baronets and lords 5) Body of equals 6) Book of genealogies 7) British aristocracy 8) British book of genealogies 9) British legal system 10) Duke, marquis, earl, etc 11) Dukes, earls, etc 12) English nobility 13) House of Lords members 14) Look long at a lordly list
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1) Baronage
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The peerage is a legal system of largely hereditary titles in the United Kingdom, which is constituted by the ranks of British nobility and is part of the British honours system. The term is used both collectively to refer to the entire body of noble titles (or a subdivision thereof), and individually to refer to a specific title (and generally ha...
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• (n.) The rank or dignity of a peer. • (n.) The body of peers; the nobility, collectively.
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(from the article `United Kingdom`) During the early 17th century a small titular aristocracy composed of between 75 and 100 peers formed the apex of the social structure. Their titles ... ...with the land, still the bedrock of wealth, status, and power. The greatest landowners (Massie`s 310 families) owned estates ranging from 10,000 ....
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The high
nobility; in the UK, holders, in descending order, of the titles of duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron. In the late 19th century the peerage was augmented by the Lords of Appeal in...
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Peer'age noun [ See
Peer an equal, and confer
Parage .]
1. The rank or dignity of a peer.
Blackstone. 2. The body of peers; the nobility, collectively. « When Charlemain with all his
peerage fell.»
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[
n] - the peers of a kingdom considered as a group
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baronage noun the peers of a kingdom considered as a group
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The high nobility; in the UK, holders, in descending order, of the titles of duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron. In the late 19th century the peerage was augmented by the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (the nonhereditary life peers) and, from 1958, by a number of specially created life peers of either sex (usually long-standing members ...
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