NOBILITY

n. 1 nobleness, dignity, grandeur, illustriousness, greatness, glory, influence, authority, leadership, distinction, probity, integrity, excellence, goodness, character, rectitude, righteousness, ethics, honesty, honourableness, decency, justness, high-mindedness, magnanimity, prestige, loftiness, primacy, significance The man's nobility was evident from his mien and bearing 2 rank, position, class, birth, blue blood Their nobility is recognized only at court and in fashionable society 3 the nobility. the gentry, the élite, the aristocracy, Colloq the upper crust, the ruling class(es), the Establishment, US the Four Hundred With a name like Hohenzollern, her family must be from the European nobility