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Peer :: Peer (n.) A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a peer of the realm..

States-general :: States-general (n.) In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty..

Fidalgo :: Fidalgo (n.) The lowest title of nobility in Portugal, corresponding to that of Hidalgo in Spain..

Ennoble :: Ennoble (v. t.) To raise to the rank of nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner..

Estate :: Estate (n.) The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons..

Countess :: Countess (n.) The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the Note under Count..

Commons :: Commons (n. pl.) The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people..

Superior :: Superior (a.) Higher in rank or office; more exalted in dignity; as, a superior officer; a superior degree of nobility..

Nobility :: Nobility (n.) The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence.

Franchise :: Franchise (a.) Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility.

Baron :: Baron (n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount..

Presence :: Presence (n.) An assembly, especially of person of rank or nobility; noble company..

Margrave :: Margrave (n.) The English equivalent of the German title of nobility, markgraf; a marquis..

Prince :: Prince (a.) A title belonging to persons of high rank, differing in different countries. In England it belongs to dukes, marquises, and earls, but is given to members of the royal family only. In Italy a prince is inferior to a duke as a member of a particular order of nobility; in Spain he is always one of the royal family..

Peerage :: Peerage (n.) The body of peers; the nobility, collectively..

Commonalty :: Commonalty (n.) The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons.

Patrician :: Patrician (n.) Originally, a member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the nobility..

Cortes :: Cortes (n. pl.) The legislative assembly, composed of nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal answers, in some measure, to the Parliament of Great Britain..

Noble :: Noble (superl.) Of exalted rank; of or pertaining to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn; as, noble blood; a noble personage..

Rank :: Rank (n. & v.) Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral..

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