PEERAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peerage mean? 

• PEERAGE (noun)
  The noun PEERAGE has 1 sense:

1. the peers of a kingdom considered as a group

  Familiarity information: PEERAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEERAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The peers of a kingdom considered as a group

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

baronage; peerage

Hypernyms ("peerage" is a kind of...):

aristocracy; nobility (a privileged class holding hereditary titles)

Meronyms (members of "peerage"):

Lady; noblewoman; peeress (a woman of the peerage in Britain)

peer (a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage)

 Context examples 

“Am I to understand,” said he, in a loud, harsh voice, “that this young man claims to be the heir of the peerage of Avon?”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her husband was really deserving of her; independent of his peerage, his wealth, and his attachment, being to a precision the most charming young man in the world.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)