- nobility, aristocracy - a privileged class holding hereditary titles
--1 is a kind of elite, elite group
--1 has members: aristocrat, blue blood, patrician
--1 has particulars:noblesse; peerage, baronage; second estate, lords temporal; knighthood; samurai; Ferdinand and Isabella; William and Mary - nobility, magnanimousness, grandeur - the quality of being exalted in character or ideals or conduct
--2 is a kind of honorableness, honourableness
--2 has particulars:high-mindedness, idealism, noble-mindedness; sublimity, the sublime - nobility, noblesse - the state of being of noble birth
--3 is a kind of status, position
--3 has particulars: purple