A proud, noble, or gallant person; (also) a stately or splendid person or thing. Obsolete.

People of high birth, rank, or status as a class. Usually with plural agreement; frequently with the. Also (frequently without the) in high and low…

elliptical. = person or persons of estate. Obsolete. (Cf. similar use of dignity.)

colloquial. Chiefly with capital initial. A person entitled to be addressed as ‘Honourable’ (see sense A. 5a).

A person of high rank, status, or importance; a dignitary; a noble, lord, or prince; = estate, n. 3c. Obsolete.

transferred. A person holding a high office or position; a dignitary.

A person of high rank, status, or importance. Usually in plural.

Scottish. Apparently: a notable person, a dignitary.

A person who bears a title of rank; a titled person. Obsolete.

A person of high rank. Obsolete. rare.

One invested with a dignity; a personage holding high rank or office, esp. ecclesiastical.

a person of position, rank, or ‘quality’.

Importance, distinction, ‘mark’. Now only with reference to persons, in phrases (somewhat archaic) man, woman of figure, a person of rank and station.

A person holding a title indicating high social class or rank; a titled person. Chiefly in to marry a title.

A person who bears a title of rank; a titled person; = titular, n. 2a. Obsolete. rare.

colloquial. = honourable, n. 1.

colloquial. A person of high rank, position, or status. Cf. higher-up, n.

a person, animal, or thing ranked highly in some scale, esp. a person of elevated social status.