Meanings
plural peerages
- countableuncountablePeers as a group; the titled nobility or aristocracy.
- countableuncountableThe rank or title of a peer or peeress.
“Two or three months more went by; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichborne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest.
1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC, section 2, page 173
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Old Frenchparage
- Middle Englishperage
- Englishpeerage
Inherited from Middle English perage, from Old French parage. By surface analysis, peer + -age. Doublet of parage.
More words from Middle English, Old French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian пе́рове
- пе́рове (pérove)peers as a group
French pairie
- pairiethe rank or title of a peer
German Adel, Adelstitel
- Adelpeers as a group
- Adelstitelthe rank or title of a peer
Irish tiarnas
- tiarnasthe rank or title of a peer
Norwegian Bokmål adelskalender
- adelskalenderbook listing peers and their families
Portuguese pariato, pares
- pariatopeers as a group
- paresthe rank or title of a peer
Spanish pairía, título nobiliario
- pairíathe rank or title of a peer
- título nobiliariothe rank or title of a peer
Cite this entry
peerage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/peerage
“peerage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/peerage. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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