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nobility
 
Noun nobility has 3 senses
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. nobility, noblesse - the state of being of noble birth
    --3 is a kind of status, position
    --3 has particulars: purple
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