Noun:

कुलीन जन-समुदाय, धनिक लोग,

peerage's Usage Examples:

Saigo's patriotism and his great services in the cause of the restoration of the administrative power to the throne were so fully recognized that his son was raised to the peerage with the title of marquess, and his own memory was honoured by the erection of a bronze statue in Tokyo.

When the Liberals returned to power in 1880 he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Sherbrooke, but from 1875 till his death at Warlingham, Surrey, on the 27th of July 1892, his health was constantly failing, and by degrees he figured less and less in public life.

About the end of the year 1579 his wife died, leaving him one son, Archibald (who in 1627 was raised to the peerage by the title of Lord Napier), and one daughter, Jane.

Her children he adopted as his own; and it was chiefly for her sake that he desired the peerage which was twice held out to him.

A peerage was openly talked of as his due, while his own ambition pointed to some responsible office at home.

He would have taken his title from Beaconsfield had he survived to enter the peerage.

the Fair, in September 1297, attached a peerage of France.

In November 1660 by his father's death he had become Viscount Valentia and Baron Mountnorris in the Irish peerage, and on the 20th April 1661 he was created Baron Annesley of Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire and earl of Anglesey in the peerage of Great Britain.

But in 1756, when the government was evidently approaching its fall, an unexpected vacancy occurred in the chief justiceship of the king's bench, and he claimed the office, being at the same time raised to the peerage as Baron Mansfield.

He was raised to the peerage in 1895, and died in London Jan.

Synonyms:

peeress, noblewoman, aristocracy, baronage, nobility, Lady, peer,

Antonyms:

male aristocrat, Lady, noblewoman, nobleman, Lord,