Nobility
Nobility
#875. Nobility. -- N. nobility, rank, condition, distinction,
optimacy[obs], blood, pur sang[Fr], birth, high descent, order; quality,
gentility; blue blood of Castile; ancien regime[Fr].
- high life, haute monde[Fr]; upper classes, upper ten thousand; the
four hundred [U. S.]; elite, aristocracy, great folks; fashionable world
&c. (fashion) 852.
- peer, peerage; house of lords, house of peers; lords, lords temporal
and spiritual; noblesse; noble, nobleman; lord, lordling[obs]; grandee,
magnifico[Lat], hidalgo; daimio[obs], daimyo, samurai, shizoku [all
Japanese]; don, donship[obs]; aristocrat, swell, three-tailed
bashaw[obs]; gentleman, squire, squireen[obs], patrician, laureate.
- gentry, gentlefolk; *squirarchy[obs], better sort magnates, primates,
optimates[obs]; pantisocracy[obs].
- king &c. (master) 745; atheling[obs]; prince, duke; marquis,
marquisate[obs]; earl, viscount, baron, thane, banneret[obs]; baronet,
baronetcy[obs]; knight, knighthood; count, armiger[obs], laird;
signior[obs], seignior; esquire, boyar, margrave, vavasour[obs]; emir,
ameer[obs], scherif[obs], sharif, effendi, wali; sahib; chevalier,
maharaja, nawab, palsgrave[obs], pasha, rajah, waldgrave[obs].
- princess, begum[obs], duchess, marchioness; countess &c.; lady, dame;
memsahib; Dona, maharani, rani.
- personage of distinction, man of distinction, personage of rank, man
of rank, personage of mark, man of mark; notables, notabilities; celebrity,
bigwig, magnate, great man, star, superstar; big bug; big gun, great gun;
gilded rooster* [U. S.]; magni nominis umbra [Lat][Lucan]; " every inch a
king " [Lear].
- V. be noble &c. adj.
- Adj. noble, exalted; of rank &c. n.; princely, titled, patrician,
aristocratic; high-, well-born; of gentle blood; genteel, comme il
faut[Fr], gentlemanlike[obs], courtly &c. (fashionable) 852; highly
respectable.
- Adv. in high quarters.
- Phr. Adel sitzt im Gemuthe nicht im Gebluete[Ger.]; adelig und edel
sind zweierlei[obs][Ger.]; noblesse oblige[Fr.].