elite, elite group - a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status

noblesse - members of the nobility (especially of the French nobility)

baronage, peerage - the peers of a kingdom considered as a group

lords temporal, second estate - the second estate of the realm: the nobility (especially British nobility) of the rank of duke or marquess or earl or viscount or baron

knighthood - aristocrats holding the rank of knight

samurai - feudal Japanese military aristocracy

Ferdinand and Isabella - joint monarchs of Spain; Ferdinand V and Isabella I

William and Mary - joint monarchs of England; William III and Mary II

aristocrat, blue blood, patrician - a member of the aristocracy

honorableness, honourableness - the quality of deserving honor or respect; characterized by honor

high-mindedness, noble-mindedness, idealism - elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued

sublimity, the sublime - nobility in thought or feeling or style

status, position - the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society; "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life"

purple - of imperial status; "he was born to the purple"