peerage Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the peers of a kingdom considered as a group
    baronage.

WordNet

Peer"age noun
Etymology
See Peer an equal, and cf. Parage.
Definitions
  1. The rank or dignity of a peer. Blackstone.
  2. The body of peers; the nobility, collectively.
    When Charlemain with all his peerage fell. Milton.

Webster 1913