peerage

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Governmentpeeragepeer‧age /ˈpɪərɪdʒ $ ˈpɪr-/ noun 1 → the peerage2 [countable]PG the rank of a British peerExamples from the Corpuspeerage• In February 1921 he gave up office and soon afterwards he accepted a peerage and retired from active politics.• Mo Mowlam, the retiring Cabinet Office minister, is believed to have refused a peerage.• Members of the House of Lords sat by virtue of birth, holding hereditary peerages.• I earn my first of these by commenting that there were a few raised eyebrows when his peerage was announced last June.• With union, new peerages came into being.• Prior to union, each kingdom had its own peerage.

单词	peerage
释义	peerage From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Governmentpeeragepeer‧age /ˈpɪərɪdʒ $ ˈpɪr-/ noun 1 → the peerage2 [countable]PG the rank of a British peerExamples from the Corpuspeerage• In February 1921 he gave up office and soon afterwards he accepted a peerage and retired from active politics.• Mo Mowlam, the retiring Cabinet Office minister, is believed to have refused a peerage.• Members of the House of Lords sat by virtue of birth, holding hereditary peerages.• I earn my first of these by commenting that there were a few raised eyebrows when his peerage was announced last June.• With union, new peerages came into being.• Prior to union, each kingdom had its own peerage.
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