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Webster 1913 Edition

Peerage

Peer′age

,
Noun.
[See
Peer
an equal, and cf.
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.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Peerage

PEE'RAGE

,
Noun.
[See Peer, an equal.]
The rank or dignity of a peer or nobleman.
1.
The body of peers.

Definition 2024

peerage

peerage

English

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, in The Tremarn Case:
      “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.

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Etymology

From peer +‎ -age.

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