aristocratic
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7.2
- adjective
- /ˌærɪstəˈkrætɪk/
:
aristocrático
- In the South, as in Europe, the aristocratic pretensions of landowners and military leaders had bestowed prestige.
- aristocratic lineage
- aristocratic elite
- aristocratic privilege
You can have a priestly cast that's over the aristocratic class, right?
- You can have a priestly cast that's over the aristocratic class, right?
- And the fact that we have have Rien we're reenacting an aristocratic system is not good news.
- And the fact that we have have re we're re enacting an aristocratic system is not good news.
- It was like from the most working class town in all of England playing the most aristocratic, bourgeois wanky sport that you can think of.
- But a very very large population full of very wealthy aristocratic families sustaining and an emperor.
Examples
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Scarlett had never seen anyone look quite so distinguished and aristocratic as her grandfather.
Fiction book (1991) -
Some naval officers came from aristocratic families, but most were from what today we call the middle classes.
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Because she thought it made her sound aristocratic.
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And the Spencer family were quite an ancient aristocratic family, and Diana was very proud of her heritage.
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He was born into an aristocratic family in Athens.
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He is worried about his lack of nobility, his lack of aristocratic background.
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The problem with Southern politics and culture was that it was aristocratic and thus proprietary and protectionist.
Academic text (2017) -
They all thought our engagement was for the families, the papers, for the damn aristocratic theatrics of it all.
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The study of the liberal arts is the aristocratic endeavor par excellence.
Academic text (1999) -
She was raised in an aristocratic family, attending elegant balls and galas throughout her childhood.
Synonyms
128
4.4
Being from a high social family by birth
45
8.1
Belonging to a rich, important family
20
5.8
Showing elegant, expensive style that makes someone seem richer or more important
17
9.1
Born into a noble family
14
7.7
Polite and elegant in a way that tries to impress others
11
4.3
Belonging to the richest and most powerful people in society
6
7.2
Polite and elegant like people at a royal court
4
8.6
Having polite, elegant manners like upper class people
4
4.1
Showing elegant, polite manners and good taste
1
8.2
A person who comes from a royal or noble family and has high social rank
1
7.5
A person from a noble or upper-class family
1
8.5
Large and impressive, like a lord's old house or small castle
1
7.4
A person from a noble or wealthy family with polite, refined manners
1
9.3
Showing the attitude of a rich person who thinks they are better than others
Belonging to the noble class and showing their manners and style
A person who comes from a rich or upper-class family
Having the style and manners of the upper class
Antonyms
How Aristocratic
Surface Forms
Morphology
aristocratic = aristocrat (transparent) = aristocrat + ic
Formed from the noun 'aristocrat' with the adjectival suffix '-ic', so the meaning 'relating to aristocrats' is directly derived.
Etymology
The word aristocratic comes from Greek parts aristo- meaning 'best' and -cratic meaning 'rule' or 'power'. So someone or something described as aristocratic belongs to the 'best' or top class and often shows the manners and life of the upper class.