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aristocratic
[uh-ris-tuh-krat-ik, ar-uh-stuh-]
adjective
of or relating to government by an aristocracy.
belonging to or favoring the aristocracy.
characteristic of an aristocrat; having the manners, values, or qualities associated with the aristocracy.
aristocratic bearing; aristocratic snobbishness.
aristocratic
/ ˌærɪstəˈkrætɪk /
adjective
relating to or characteristic of aristocracy or an aristocrat
elegant or stylish in appearance and behaviour
Other Word Forms
- aristocratically adverb
- aristocraticalness noun
- aristocraticness noun
- antiaristocratic adjective
- antiaristocratical adjective
- antiaristocratically adverb
- nonaristocratic adjective
- nonaristocratical adjective
- nonaristocratically adverb
- proaristocratic adjective
- pseudoaristocratic adjective
- pseudoaristocratical adjective
- pseudoaristocratically adverb
- unaristocratic adjective
- unaristocratically adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of aristocratic1
Example Sentences
“Under our ownership, the Daily Telegraph will become a global brand, just as the Daily Mail has,” said Chairman Jonathan Harmsworth, who is also known by his aristocratic title Viscount Rothermere.
Tempering democratic rhetoric with aristocratic restraint, he rises above the divisions of debate to deliver the funeral oration when Athens buries its dead sons in the war’s first winter.
Mr. Schlossberg’s campaign displays aristocratic pretensions that fit uneasily into this new politics.
He quotes an aristocratic press attaché for Franco’s Civil War forces telling an American reporter that the conflict was “a race war, not merely a class war”:
In 2004 she published her memoirs Annabel: An Unconventional Life, where she recalled her aristocratic childhood, glamorous social life in 1960s Swinging London to her role as matriarch and grandmother.
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