Dictionary

peerage en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• [ˈpɪə̯.ɹɪdʒ] (Australia, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈpiə.ɹədʒ/ (New-Zealand)
• pîr′ĭj
• /ˈpɪə.ɪdʒ/ (Australia, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈpɪɹ.ɪdʒ/ (Canada, General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• [ˈpɪː.ɹɪdʒ] (Australia, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈpiɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ (Scotland)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English perage, from Old French parage. By surface analysis, peer + -age. Doublet of parage.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Peers as a group; the titled nobility or aristocracy.
2. (countable, uncountable) The 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:
3. (countable, uncountable) A book listing such people and their families.

Forms

Deriveds

beerage

Relateds

bunyip aristocracy · aristocracy

Synonyms

peership · peerdom

Translations (11)

de Adel (peers as a group) · fr pairie (the rank or title of a peer) · pt pares (the rank or title of a peer) · pt pariato (peers as a group) · es título nobiliario (the rank or title of a peer) · es pairía (the rank or title of a peer) · de Adelstitel (the rank or title of a peer) · ga tiarnas (the rank or title of a peer) · nb adelskalender (book listing peers and their families) · bg пе́рове (peers as a group) · nn adelskalender (book listing peers and their families)