Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A member of a ruling class or of the nobility.
- n. A person having the tastes, manners, or other characteristics of the aristocracy: a natural aristocrat who insists on the best accommodations.
- n. A person who advocates government by an aristocracy.
- n. One considered the best of its kind: the aristocrat of cars.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. One of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in Revolutionary France).
- n. A proponent of aristocracy; an advocate of aristocratic government.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble.
- n. One who is overbearing in his temper or habits; a proud or haughty person.
- n. One who favors an aristocracy as a form of government, or believes the aristocracy should govern.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A member of the aristocracy or men of rank in a community; hence, a person having the traits supposed to be characteristic of an aristocracy: as, “a born aristocrat,” Mrs. Browning.
- n. One who favors an aristocracy; one who is an advocate of an aristocratic form of government.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a member of the aristocracy
Etymologies
Examples
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Wouldn't Shakespeare, which brave defender of anointed majesty, have approved a dignified which any clever aristocrat is improved for a nation than any diseased one?
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As another entitled aristocrat once said "let them eat cake."
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Most of “Blood & Iron” is comprised of our team investigating a large mansion being bought by a man hoping to capitalize on its grim history involving a vain aristocrat who killed young women and bathed in their blood to make her younger.
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For most of his career, Bronfman, who is married to a striking Latin American aristocrat, has endured withering criticism and was generally dismissed as a rich-kid dilettante.
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An eccentric aristocrat is hoping to give away his 16-bedroom mansion to a complete stranger and then move into "the comfort" of a council house, it emerged today.
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In a Darkover novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley, I recall a scene where a spaceman from Earth is talking to an aristocrat from the pre-industrial native culture.
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Why is it that the word aristocrat as applied to a gentleman is as offensive as that of flunkey applied to a footman?
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The titled aristocrat pays dearer for his horse, dearer for his coat, dearer for his servant than other people.
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The first thing you have to understand about the English aristocrat is that the true English aristocrat has no chin.
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But the M. de Narbonne whose letters are printed is not our M. de Narbonne, but a relation of his, a man of true honour, but a decided aristocrat from the beginning of the Revolution who had consequently devoted himself to the party of the Princes.
oroboros commented on the word aristocrat
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June 17, 2008