peerage

Definitions

The body of peers or titled nobility in a country.

The rank, dignity, or status of a peer.

Examples

He was granted a life peerage in recognition of his decades of service to the government.

The historical records detail the complex rules governing the succession of the British peerage.

Synonyms

nobility aristocracy gentry lords titled class patriciate upper crust

Antonyms

commoners peasantry proletariat commonalty plebeians masses lower class