Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun second_estate

1 sense of second estate

Sense 1
second estate, Lords Temporal -- (the nobility in France and the peerage in Britain)
       => estate of the realm, estate, the three estates -- (a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights)