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What does peerage mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word peerage? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Peers as a group; the nobility, aristocracy.
  2. The rank or title of a peer or peeress.
  3. A book listing such people and their families.
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Labour will table another bill in 2007 proposing the total abolition of the peerage, making the upper house an all-appointed chamber.
As a reward for taking defeat with dignity he was awarded a peerage, becoming Lord Watson of Invergowrie.
In September 1945 he was raised to the peerage, and retired the following March.
The next thing you know, Michael Forsyth will be jacking in his peerage, and trying to get Stirling back.
The spiritual peerage consists of the archbishops and diocesan bishops of the Church of England.
That was a problem because a duke is a nobleman of the highest hereditary rank and a member of the highest grade of the British peerage.

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