peerage
English
noun
Definitions
- Peers as a group; the nobility, aristocracy.
- The rank or title of a peer or peeress.
- A book listing such people and their families.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English perage suffix from English peer.
Origin
English
peer
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- nonpeer English
- outpeer English
- overpeer English
- peer English
- peercast English
- peerdom English
- peerer English
- peeress English
- peerest English
- peereth English
- peerless English
- peership English
- peery English
- superpeer English
- ultrapeer English
- unpeerable English
- perage Middle English
- piren Middle English