Definition of nobility

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Nobility (n.) Those who are noble; the collictive body of nobles or titled persons in a stste; the aristocratic and patrician class; the peerage; as, the English nobility..

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Graf :: Graf (n.) A German title of nobility, equivalent to earl in English, or count in French. See Earl..
Margrave :: Margrave (n.) The English equivalent of the German title of nobility, markgraf; a marquis..
Franchise :: Franchise (a.) Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility.
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..
Duke :: Duke (n.) In England, one of the highest order of nobility after princes and princesses of the royal blood and the four archbishops of England and Ireland..
Nobleman :: Nobleman (n.) One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent..
Presence :: Presence (n.) An assembly, especially of person of rank or nobility; noble company..
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..
Nobley :: Nobley (n.) Noble birth; nobility; dignity.
Amir :: Amir (n.) One of the Mohammedan nobility of Afghanistan and Scinde.
Rank :: Rank (n. & v.) Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral..
Viscount :: Viscount (a.) A nobleman of the fourth rank, next in order below an earl and next above a baron; also, his degree or title of nobility. See Peer, n., 3..
Nobility :: Nobility (n.) The state of being of high rank or noble birth; patrician dignity; antiquity of family; distinction by rank, station, or title, whether inherited or conferred..
Noblesse :: Noblesse (n.) The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively, including males and females..
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..
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..
Commonalty :: Commonalty (n.) The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons.
Gentry :: Gentry (a.) People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry..
Optimacy :: Optimacy (n.) Collectively, the nobility..
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