Nobility
English Meaning
The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence.
- A class of persons distinguished by high birth or rank and in Great Britain including dukes and duchesses, marquises and marchionesses, earls and countesses, viscounts and viscountesses, and barons and baronesses: "The old English nobility of office made way for the Norman nobility of faith and landed wealth” ( Winston S. Churchill).
- Noble rank or status: Congress may not grant titles of nobility.
- The state or quality of being exalted in character.