Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Nobility

Nouns
  • nobility, rank, condition, distinction, optimacy, blood, birth, high descent, order
  • quality, gentility
  • blue blood of Castile
  • upper classes, upper ten thousand
  • the four hundred [U.S.]
  • elite, aristocracy, great folks
  • fashionable world etc. (fashion) Fashion. peer, peerage
  • house of lords, house of peers
  • lords, lords temporal and spiritual
  • noblesse
  • noble, nobleman
  • lord, lordling
  • grandee, hidalgo
  • 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) Master
  • 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 etc.
  • 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.]
  • every inch a king" [Lear].
Verbs
  • be noble etc. adj..
Adjectives
  • noble, exalted
  • of rank etc. n.
  • princely, titled, patrician, aristocratic
  • high-, well-born
  • of gentle blood
  • genteel, gentlemanlike, courtly etc. (fashionable) Fashion
  • highly respectable.
Adverbs
  • in high quarters.