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aristocrat

[ uh-ris-tuh-krat, ar-uh-stuh- ]

noun

  1. a member of an aristocracy, especially a noble.

    Synonyms: lord, peer, patrician

  2. a person who has the tastes, manners, etc., characteristic of members of an aristocracy.
  3. an advocate of an aristocratic form of government.
  4. anything regarded as the best, most elegant, or most stylish of its kind:

    the aristocrat of California wines.



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
  3. a person who advocates aristocracy as a form of government
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of aristocrat1

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

He was a genuine modernizer who built cities, factories and universities and took land away from aristocrats to give to peasants.

In 1948, Charles Aron, co-owner of Aristocrat, divorced his wife, Evelyn.

The French aristocrat Marquis de Sade once said that “It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.”

He was a lowly country lawyer and she a Kentucky aristocrat who had come to visit her older sister in Illinois.

Where Kate is mild-mannered and middle-class, Cressy, 24, is a wild, blue-blooded aristocrat with bohemian heritage.

Will she settle down to a life of quiet obscurity and shooting parties and marry an aristocrat like the establishment hopes?

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

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

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

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

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

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