Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of the hereditary aristocracy of ancient Athens.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the Eupatridæ.
- Of or pertaining to the Eupatridæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One well born, or of noble birth.
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- noun One well born, or of
noble birth . - noun zoology Any member of the Eupatridae.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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You are of noble family, "eupatrid" by descent, a priest of the divinities,
The Symposium 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874
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You are of noble family, “eupatrid” by descent, a priest of the divinities,351 and of
Symposium 2007
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Whatever politicians say nowadays, that house was eupatrid as far as you could trace it back.
The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978
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Ah! revile that old faith as you will, it has lasted longer than any other cultus; and whilst altars have reeled, and idols been shattered, and priests changed their teachings, and peoples altered their gods, the old faith has lasted through all; and the simple instinct of the Greek eupatrid and of the Roman patrician still moves the heart of the English gentleman -- the instinct of _Noblesse oblige_.
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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To that eupatrid, joined before with himself, was now intrusted the command of the Grecian fleet.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
yarb commented on the word eupatrid
"...and why question in 1932 (or how*?) the credo trained into us of economic propraetorships inevitably to come, the steady steak-fed beating of the Big Board heart, and naturally at the last the opulent, the eupatrid retirement?"
- W.M. Spackman, Heyday
*the text has "or how?" but I think "or now" makes asmuch/more sense given the publication date.
December 22, 2011
qms commented on the word eupatrid
The youth who boasts of "noble" birth
Of wit displays a dismal dearth.
He may be a stupid kid
But since he's a eupatrid,
His playmates must simulate mirth.
December 18, 2015