The group or part of a group selected or regarded as the finest, best, most distinguished, most powerful, etc.
Used as a title for members of a class of honorary nobility appointed by the Byzantine emperors.
Monarchs and their families considered as a group.
A person who has suddenly risen to a higher social and economic class and has not yet gained social acceptance by others in that class.
A member of the nobility; peer
Nobility is a group of people of high rank, or a person having a high level of character or morals.
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(Informal) One who is fashionably dressed or socially prominent:
magnificoes
(Obsolete) A rector of a German university.
(medieval political theory) Specifically, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire; the world-monarch.
In the middle ages a knight was defined as a nobleman who served a king as a mounted man-of-arms; but today, a knight is used to refer to someone who has been honored by the monarch of England for their achievements.
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marquises
A nobleman ranking below a duke and above an earl or a count.
A lord or nobleman; a peer.
proletariats (antonym)
The working class or lower class.
citizens (antonym)
A resident of a city or town, especially one entitled to vote and enjoy other privileges there.
queens (related)
The wife of a king
lords (related)
(Biblical) Typographical variant of Lord in some Bible translations.
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