the peerage
noun
formal
1
: the people who are members of the British nobility : the people who are peers
2
: the rank of a British peer
He was given the peerage after years of devoted service to the community.
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Season three cavalierly upends that storyline by handing Will’s young son a surprise title and elevating Will’s entire family to the peerage.
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Aja Romano, Vox, 21 May 2024
Victims are calling for Clarke to be stripped of the peerage he was awarded in 2020 by Boris Johnson.
—Harriet Marsden, The Week Uk, theweek, 21 May 2024
Though most historians agree that Anne was likely innocent of the crimes she was accused of, she was nonetheless unanimously convicted by a court of the peerage.
—Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 28 Aug. 2022
Today, however, the heralds are experts on such things as history and genealogy and provide advice on anything to do with the peerage and royal ceremonies.
—Phil Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 10 May 2022
There are also more than a thousand baronets, a title associated with country squires that ranks below a baron and is not part of the peerage.
—Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2020
As a baronet descended, Brooksbank comes from the only class of British nobility not part of the peerage, the ranks of which consist (in descending order of precedence) of duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron.
—Sabrina Park, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Apr. 2023
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Aja Romano, Vox, 21 May 2024
Victims are calling for Clarke to be stripped of the peerage he was awarded in 2020 by Boris Johnson.
—Harriet Marsden, The Week Uk, theweek, 21 May 2024
Though most historians agree that Anne was likely innocent of the crimes she was accused of, she was nonetheless unanimously convicted by a court of the peerage.
—Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 28 Aug. 2022
Today, however, the heralds are experts on such things as history and genealogy and provide advice on anything to do with the peerage and royal ceremonies.
—Phil Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 10 May 2022
There are also more than a thousand baronets, a title associated with country squires that ranks below a baron and is not part of the peerage.
—Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2020
As a baronet descended, Brooksbank comes from the only class of British nobility not part of the peerage, the ranks of which consist (in descending order of precedence) of duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron.
—Sabrina Park, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Apr. 2023
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“The peerage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20peerage. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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