Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

blood, pur sang [Fr.], birth, high descent, order; quality, gentility; blue blood of Castile; ancien regime [Fr.]. high life, haute monde [Fr.]; upper classes, upper ten thousand; the four hundred [U.S.]; elite, aristocracy, great folks; fashionable world &c (fashion) 852. peer, peerage; house of lords, house of peers; lords, lords temporal and spiritual; noblesse; noble, nobleman; lord, lordling†; grandee, magnifico [Lat.], hidalgo; daimio [Jap.], daimyo [Jap.], samurai [Jap.], shizoku [Jap.]; don, donship†; aristocrat, swell, three- tailed bashaw†; gentleman, squire, squireen†, patrician, laureate. gentry, gentlefolk; squirarchy [Slang], better sort magnates, primates, optimates†; pantisocracy†. king &c (master) 745; atheling†; prince, duke; marquis, marquisate†; earl, viscount, baron, thane, banneret†; baronet, baronetcy†; knight, knighthood; count, armiger†, laird; signior†, seignior; esquire, boyar, margrave, vavasour†; emir, ameer†, scherif†, sharif, effendi, wali; sahib; chevalier, maharaja, nawab, palsgrave†, pasha, rajah, waldgrave†. princess, begum†, duchess, marchioness; countess &c; lady, dame; memsahib; Do$a, maharani, rani. personage of distinction, man of distinction, personage of rank, man of rank, personage of mark, man of mark; notables, notabilities; celebrity, bigwig, magnate, great man, star, superstar; big bug; big gun, great gun; gilded rooster [U.S.]; magni nominis umbra [Lat.] [Lucan]; every inch a king [Lear]. V. be noble &c adj.. Adj. noble, exalted; of rank &c n.; princely, titled, patrician, aristocratic; high-, well-born; of gentle blood; genteel, comme il faut [Fr.], gentlemanlike†, courtly &c (fashionable) 852; highly respectable. Adv. in high quarters. Phr. Adel sitzt im Gemuthe nicht im Gebluete [G.]; adelig und edel sind zweierlei [G.]; noblesse oblige [Fr.].