aristocrat

[ uh-ris-tuh-krat, ar-uh-stuh- ]
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noun
  1. a member of an aristocracy, especially a noble.

  2. a person who has the tastes, manners, etc., characteristic of members of an aristocracy.

  1. an advocate of an aristocratic form of government.

  2. anything regarded as the best, most elegant, or most stylish of its kind: the aristocrat of California wines.

Origin of aristocrat

1
First recorded in 1770–80; from French aristocrate, back formation from aristocratie aristocracy

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How to use aristocrat in a sentence

  • Mistress of the Chevalier de Valois, and mother of a child that was attributed to the old aristocrat.

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  • To-morrow he would be riding towards Paris, the cavalier of a beautiful aristocrat.

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  • You will go most easily as a woman of the people, one who has some aristocrat enemy on whom she wishes to be avenged.

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  • Over the wine the stranger had certainly expressed distrust of Lucien Bruslart, an aristocrat turned patriot.

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  • Bruslart knew that to pity the aristocrat might be hardly more dangerous than to abuse the woman.

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British Dictionary definitions for aristocrat

aristocrat

/ (ˈærɪstəˌkræt) /


noun
  1. a member of the aristocracy; a noble

  2. a person who has the manners or qualities of a member of a privileged or superior class

  1. a person who advocates aristocracy as a form of government

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