nobility

Roget-categorie 875

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.5. Extrinsic affections

#875. Nobility

zelfstandig naamwoord

nobility, rank, condition, distinction, optimacy^†, 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 etc. (fashion) 852.
peer, peerage — house of lords, house of peers — lords, lords temporal and spiritual — noblesse — noble, nobleman — lord, lordling^† — grandee, magnifico [Lat.], hidalgo — daimio [Jap.], daimyo [Jap.], samurai [Jap.], shizoku [Jap.] — don, donship^† — aristocrat, swell, three-tailed bashaw^† — gentleman, squire, squireen^†, patrician, laureate.
gentry, gentlefolk — squirarchy [Slang], better sort magnates, primates, optimates^† — pantisocracy^†.
king etc. (master) 745 — atheling^† — prince, duke — marquis, marquisate^† — earl, viscount, baron, thane, banneret^† — baronet, baronetcy^† — knight, knighthood — count, armiger^†, laird — signior^†, seignior — esquire, boyar, margrave, vavasour^† — emir, ameer^†, scherif^†, sharif, effendi, wali — sahib — chevalier, maharaja, nawab, palsgrave^†, pasha, rajah, waldgrave^†.
princess, begum^†, duchess, marchioness — countess &c. — lady, dame — memsahib — Do$a, 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].

werkwoord

be noble etc. adj..

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

noble, exalted — of rank etc. n. — princely, titled, patrician, aristocratic — high-, well-born — of gentle blood — genteel, comme il faut [Fr.], gentlemanlike^†, courtly etc. (fashionable) 852 — highly respectable.

bijwoord

in high quarters.

uitdrukking

Adel sitzt im Gemuthe nicht im Gebluete [G.] — adelig und edel sind zweierlei [G.] — noblesse oblige [Fr.].

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