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BARONAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does baronage mean?
• BARONAGE (noun)
The noun BARONAGE has 1 sense:
1. the peers of a kingdom considered as a group
Familiarity information: BARONAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("baronage" is a kind of...):
aristocracy; nobility (a privileged class holding hereditary titles)
Meronyms (members of "baronage"):
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)
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