peerage

The rank, title, or jurisdiction of a peer or peeress; a duchy, marquisate, county, viscountcy, or barony.

Peers and peeresses considered as a group.

A book listing peers, peeresses, and their families.

The rank or dignity of a peer.

The body of peers.

[capitalized] A book containing a detailed historical and genealogical account of the peers and their connections: as, Burke’s “Peerage.”

The rank or dignity of a peer.

The body of peers; the nobility, collectively.

Peers as a group; the nobility, aristocracy.

The rank or title of a peer or peeress.