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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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As a reward for taking defeat with dignity he was awarded a peerage, becoming Lord Watson of Invergowrie.
The fortunes of the family continued to rise and, in 1789, the 7th Earl, James Cecil, was elevated in the peerage to a marquess.
In September 1945 he was raised to the peerage, and retired the following March.
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.
He deftly sidestepped the falls of Anne Boleyn and Thomas Cromwell and was raised to the peerage.
In 1925 Asquith accepted a peerage as Earl of Oxford and Asquith and was created a knight of the garter shortly afterwards.

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