peeress

Female aristocratic rank

A peeress is a woman who holds a title of nobility in her own right or by marriage to a peer.

The term applies to duchesses, marchionesses, countesses, viscountesses, and baronesses.

In British usage, peeresses may hold seats in the House of Lords: She became the first peeress to address Parliament.

title

duchess

Woman of ducal rank

countessFeminine noble rank
baronessFemale holder of barony
viscountessNobleman's wife or widow

marchioness · dame · lady · dowager · hereditary · nobility · rank · precedence · succession · ennoblement

society

aristocrat

Person of noble birth

noblewomanFemale of high birth
bluebloodPerson of noble birth
patricianHighborn Roman elite

socialite · debutante · high society · elite · gentry · finishing school · season · presentation · court · salon

lineage

dynasty

Successive family rulers

lineageDescent from progenitors
ancestryFamily line of descent
heritageInherited cultural legacy

bloodline · pedigree · birthright · succession · heiress · dowager · matriarch · inheritance · entail · primogeniture

Categories

nobilityking, queen, prince, princess, duke
British Peeragebaron, baroness, viscount, viscountess, earl
noblewomennoblewoman, duchess, countess, baroness, marchioness
peeragebaron, baroness, viscount, earl, viscountess
royal titlesqueen, king, prince, princess, emperor
socialitessocialite, debutante, heiress, jet setter, jet-setter

Opposites

GENDER within nobility

peeresspeer

One of similar standing

lord · nobleman · duke · earl · marquess

social class/rank

peeresscommoner

Non-noble person

peasant · serf · plebeian · citizen · bourgeois

Family

peer, peers, peerage, peering, peerlessly, peerlessness

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