English-Dutch translations for nobility

• adel
  We vragen ons af hoe het ooit mogelijk geweest is dat alleen de adel vrijgesteld was van belasting? We say, how could it possibly have been constructed so that only the nobility had exemption from taxation?
  De nobele mensen, de nieuwe adel, moet echter Europa binnen kunnen komen. The nobility, however, the new nobility of people with noble intentions, must be allowed to enter Europe.
  Onze ombudsman treedt, net als Jaakko Ilkka in de Finse Knuppeloorlog, onverschrokken op tegen de tirannie van administratieve adel. Our Ombudsman acts fearlessly, like Jaakko Ilkka in the Finnish Cudgel War, against the tyranny of the administrative nobility.
• adeldom
• adelstand

Definition of nobility

• A noble or privileged social class, historically accompanied by a hereditary title; aristocracy
• The quality of being noble

Related words

• ignobility
• antinobility
• raise to nobility/peerage
• title of nobility
• high nobility
• marshal of the nobility
• raise to nobility