Hidalgo vs. Nobility — What's the Difference?

A member of the minor nobility in Spain.

Nobility is a social class normally ranked immediately below royalty and found in some societies that have a formal aristocracy. Nobility has often been an estate of the realm that possessed more acknowledged privilege and higher social status than most other classes in society.

A member of the Spanish nobility, especially one without a title.

A class of persons distinguished by high birth or rank and in Great Britain including dukes and duchesses, marquises and marchionesses, earls and countesses, viscounts and viscountesses, and barons and baronesses

A title, denoting a Spanish nobleman of the lower class.

Noble rank or status

The state or quality of being exalted in character.

A noble or privileged social class, historically accompanied by a hereditary title; aristocracy.

(uncountable) The quality of being noble.

The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence.

The state of being of high rank or noble birth; patrician dignity; antiquity of family; distinction by rank, station, or title, whether inherited or conferred.

Those who are noble; the collective body of nobles or titled persons in a state; the aristocratic and patrician class; the peerage; as, the English nobility.

A privileged class holding hereditary titles

The quality of being exalted in character or ideals or conduct

The state of being of noble birth