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• aristo
  aristo

  noun

  aristocrat.
• aristo-
  aristo-

  a learned borrowing from Greek meaning “best,” occurring either in direct loans (aristocratic ), or in the formation of compound words.

aristo

¹ American  

[uh-ris-toh] / əˈrɪs toʊ /

noun

Chiefly British Informal.

aristos plural

1. aristocrat.

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aristo- ² American  

1. a learned borrowing from Greek meaning “best,” occurring either in direct loans (aristocratic ), or in the formation of compound words.

   aristotype.

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aristo British  

/ əˈrɪstəʊ, ˈærɪstəʊ /

noun

1. informal short for aristocrat

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• aristos
  plural

Etymology

Origin of aristo¹

1860–65; by shortening; cf. -o

Origin of aristo-²

< Greek, combining form of áristos best, superlative of ari- probably a term specifying at first the upper class of society, the warrior caste; cf. Ares, perhaps Aryan

Example Sentences

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aristo aristos

Raised in a San Francisco orphanage, educated at Princeton, he has fathered two sets of twins with his Scottish aristo wife, who is herself “eighteenth cousin to the Queen twice removed or something.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2020

They aren’t the first cohort of young, aristo women with a penchant for the powerband.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 23, 2019

They train her in aristo ways in a wan “My Fair Lady”-style tutoring session.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2017

Instead of trying to look merely healthy—just naturally lustrous—women now strive to look as much as possible like a bewigged aristo of yore.

From Slate ● May 14, 2012

You are an aristo, citizen," she said, gazing with well-feigned admiration on the two sleuth-hounds who stood in wait in the anteroom; "it makes me proud to see so many citizens at my door.

From El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Meanwhile, in other surprising developments, tenant farmers prove very nearly interchangeable; aristos turn out to be rather bad at child-minding; and an underbutler shows that he is, in his down time, a superbowler.

From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2016

Other options include St. Andrews, the alma mater of both William and Kate, where the royal offspring could follow in the footsteps of many other English aristos by studying the History of Art.

From Time ● Dec. 5, 2012

Velvet sleeves concealing jewel-encrusted daggers, scheming eunuchs with networks of spies, parvenue commoners outwitting the supercilious aristos and totally, utterly ruthless power plays — what’s not to love?

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2012

The demographics of Scotland afford Warner the opportunity to explore class relationships in detail; and the isolated, rural Port is a place where the bampots and the aristos live side by side.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2012

Incredible as it may seem, so ingrained was the habit of obedience to the aristos in the prolats that not even a murmur of protest came from the condemned beings.

From Astounding Stories, July, 1931 by Various