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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers |
| Section II. Personal Affections |
| 5. Extrinsic Affections |
| 875. Nobility. |
| NOUN: | NOBILITY, rank, condition, distinction, optimacy [rare], blood, pur sang [F.], birth, high descent, order; quality, gentility; blue blood of Castile; “all the blood of all the Howards” [Pope]; caste of “Vere de Vere” [Tennyson]; ancien régime [F.]. high life, haute monde [F.]; upper classes, upper ten [colloq.], upper ten thousand; the four hundred [U. S.]; élite [F.], aristocracy, great folks; fashionable world (fashion) [See Fashion]. personage -, man- of -distinction, - mark, - rank; notables, notabilities; celebrity, bigwig [humorous], magnate, great man, star; big bug, big gun, great gun [colloq.]; gilded rooster [slang, U. S.]; magni nominis umbra [Lucan]; “every inch a king” [Lear]. [THE NOBILITY] peerage, baronage; house of -lords, - peers; lords, - temporal and spiritual; noblesse; knightage. peer, noble, nobleman; lord, lording [archaic], lordling; grandee, magnifico, hidalgo; daimio, samurai, shizoku [Jap.]; don; aristocrat, swell [colloq.], threetailed bashaw; gentleman, squire, squireen [humorous, Eng.], patrician; laureate. gentry, gentlefolk; squirarchy or squirearchy, better sort, magnates, primates, optimates; pantisocracy. king (master) [See Master]; atheling [hist.]; prince, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron, thane [hist.], banneret, baronet, knight, chevalier, count, armiger, esquire, laird [Scot.]; signior, seignior; signor [It.], señor [Sp.], senhor [Pg.]; boyar or boyard [Russ.]; effendi, sheik or sheikh, emir, shereef or sherif, pasha, sahib; palsgrave [Ger. hist.], waldgrave, margrave; vavasor [feudal law]. empress, queen, princess, duchess, marchioness, viscountess, countess; lady, doña [Sp.], dona [Pg.[; signora [It.], señora [Sp.], senhora [Pg.]; dame; memsahib. [INDIAN RULING CHIEFS] raja, rana, rao, rawal, rawat, rai, raikwar, raikbar, raikat; maharaja, maharana, maharao &c.; Gaekwar [lit. cowherd; Baroda]; maharaja bahadur, raja bahadur, rai (or rao) bahadur; rai (or rao) sahib; jám, thakur [all Hindu titles]. nawab, wali, sultan, ameer or amir, mir, mirza, mian, khan; Nizam, nawab bahadur, khan bahadur, khan sahib [all Moham. titles]. sirdar or sardar, diwan or dewan [both Hindu and Moham. titles]. [HONORIFICS] shahzada [“King’s son”], kumar or kunwar [“prince”]; mirza [when appended it signifies “prince”; when prefixed, “Mr.”]; arbab [“lord”]; malik [“master”]; khanzada [“son of a khan”]; huzur or huzoor [“the presence”]. [FEMALE TITLES] rani, maharani [Hindu]; sultana, malikah, begum or begam [Moham.]. shahzadi, kumari or kunwari, raj-kumari, malikzadi, khanam [all equivalent to “princess”]. [RANK OR OFFICE] kingship, dukedom, marquisate, earldom; viscountship, viscounty, viscountcy; lordship, baronetcy, knighthood, donship. |
| VERB: | be noble &c. adj. |
| ADJECTIVE: | NOBLE, exalted; of rank &c. n.; princely, titled, patrician, aristocratic; highborn, well-born; of gentle blood; genteel, comme il faut [F.], gentleman-like, courtly (fashionable) [See Fashion]; highly respectable. |
| ADVERB: | in high quarters. |
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