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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

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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

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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

He understands how to do the British aristo look better than anyone!

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2013

Take this, the first line of the demented aristo preface by Lord Charles Fitzroy: "It was down in the crypt of St Paul's cathedral that I first discovered that Boris was my cousin."

From The Guardian ● May 22, 2013

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

"The man who was here just now—an aristo."

From The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

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

At the top, to my way of thinking anyway, there are those impoverished aristos, the poets.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2010

Only the aristos hated him, and the fat bourgeois who battened on the people.

From The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

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