Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The rank, title, or jurisdiction of a peer or peeress; a duchy, marquisate, county, viscountcy, or barony.
- n. Peers and peeresses considered as a group.
- n. A book listing peers, peeresses, and their families.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The rank or dignity of a peer.
- n. The body of peers.
- n. [capitalized] A book containing a detailed historical and genealogical account of the peers and their connections: as, Burke's “Peerage.”
Wiktionary
- n. Peers as a group; the nobility, aristocracy.
- n. The rank or title of a peer or peeress.
- n. A book listing such people and their families.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The rank or dignity of a peer.
- n. The body of peers; the nobility, collectively.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the peers of a kingdom considered as a group
Etymologies
- From peer + -age. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“France which we call the peerage, and his intelligent legs rest on the velvet benches of the Luxembourg.”
“January 6th, 2010 at 2: 51 pm psuedononymous in nc: And things in America would be quite a bit more difficult, since it would require a Constitutional amendment (3/4 of the states), and the obvious analogue to elevating Liberals to the peerage is to create new states, and you need the approval of the Senate to do that.”
“If you have studied Debrett at all, you know as well as I do that the peerage is one of those old English ones which date back some six hundred years, and that the present Lady d'Alboukirk is a baroness in her own right, the title and estates descending to heirs-general.”
“The Government should call another peerage into being to redress the balance of the old, and call it the Third Millennium Peerage.”
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
“A general who fights well in order to get a peerage is a mercenary; a general who fights for victory is not, victory being the proper reward of battle as marriage is the proper reward of love.”
“The Prime Minister is right to explain that a peerage is a political office rather than a conventional honour.”
“He was taunted with being a willing agent of men whom he did not esteem, and his acceptance of a peerage was a never-failing source of invective.”
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
“Indeed, it is not too much to say that for plebeian merit the only available avenues to the peerage are the Church and the Bar.”
“-- The peerage is the park-paling of despotism, arranged to keep in creatures tame and wild for luxury and diversion, and to keep out the people.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843
“Meanwhile, permit me to remind you that 'tis inexpedient to loiter in these parts, for the parson will presently be at hand; and if it be to inter rather than to marry Lord Humphrey -- well, after all, the peerage is a populous estate!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘peerage’.
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-age
condition; result of; account; number of; cost of; place of; collection of; home of; to act
marriage, acreage, postage, steerage, peerage, hermitage, forage, Hermitage, pilgrimage, baggage, blockage, carnage and 24 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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The Lies of Locke Lamora
Words and phrases from Scott Lynch's book, The Lies of Locke Lamora
constable, windfall, sternum, commensurate, disinter, grotty, thresher shark, savvy, miser, reticent, magnanimous, trowel and 301 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Burke's Peerage & Gentry
words related to the peerage; not limited to titles.
peerage, gentry, title, privilege, heraldry, baron, baronet, lord, earl, marquess, duke, viscount and 18 more...
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wordage
-age words
verbiage, decoupage, coinage, slayage, usage, carnage, damage, courage, savage, beverage, language, blockage and 82 more...
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Seymour, an Introduction
Interesting words from JD Salinger's 1959 story.
bumptious, Dharma Bums, petulant, Teddy boy, oaty, unstinting, aspersion, attrait, aesthetic pathology, venerated, aberrant, cavil and 62 more...
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