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†;
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 &c (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].
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†, courtly &c (fashionable) 852; highly respectable.
Adv. in high quarters.
Phr. Adel sitzt im Gemuthe nicht im Gebluete [G.]; adelig und edel sind
zweierlei [G.]; noblesse oblige [Fr.].