aristocrat
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6.5
- noun
- /ˌærɪˈstɒkræt/
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aristócrata
- In Athens, she is an aristocrat; her husband is a powerful rhetorician.
- English aristocrats
- French aristocrats
- young aristocrats
He'd look like an aristocrat from a ASEAN painting.
- He'd look like an aristocrat from a ASEAN painting.
- Are they a bunch of aristocrats that I would not like?
- My real parents are wonderful, talented aristocrats.
- I hear that centuries ago many scientists and intellectuals were aristocrats.
- They could also count on the fact that many were suspicious of the Polish aristocrats who had been the landlords in that region.
- I don't get too deep into it, but Epstein was a billionaire, Playboy, untouchable aristocrat, friends with the most powerful people in the world.
- You have the aristocrats who on the surface, the ones who are doing well, they're the politicians and the generals.
- So they say Mayo is the sauce of the aristocrat.
Examples
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You have the aristocrats who on the surface, the ones who are doing well, they're the politicians and the generals.
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As an aristocrat, he inherited great wealth and a title from his family.
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When you look at me, do you see an aristocrat?
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Yeah, but... where are we going to find an aristocrat?
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The blood of the aristocrat thrilled him best of all.
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And all of these heroes are aristocrats in the traditional sense of the word.
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Almost half its officers, all aristocrats, have fled France to escape the Revolution.
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Thus, the American wife, like the aristocrats of the past, enters marriage with practical considerations in mind.
Academic text (1996) -
In czarist Russia, aristocrats and educated people spoke French, frequently as their only language.
Academic text (1998) -
My old weakness for aristocrats overcame me, and I sought his gaze.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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5.3
A person from a high social family with a title
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5.6
A man from a high social class who has a title
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7.6
A person who comes from a rich or royal family
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8.5
A person from the upper class who has polite manners
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9.6
A person from the upper class who has high social rank
A woman from a high social class with a family title
Antonyms
Compounds
How Noble
Surface Forms
Morphology
aristocrat = aristocracy (transparent) = aristo + crat
A speaker who knows 'aristocracy' can readily infer that 'aristocrat' is a person belonging to that class.
Etymology
The word aristocrat comes from Greek parts aristo- 'best' and -crat from kratos 'rule', the same -crat you see in democracy. So an aristocrat originally meant someone who 'rules as the best', and today it means a person from the highest social class.