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aristocrat Definition

aris·to·crat (ə ris′tə krat′; chiefly Britar′is tə-)

noun

  1. a member of the aristocracy; nobleman
  2. a person with the tastes, manners, beliefs, etc. of the upper class
  3. a person who believes in aristocracy as a form of government

Etymology: Fr aristocrate: term popularized during Fr Revolution

aristocrat Synonyms

aristocrat

n.

nobleman, noble, peer, patrician, lord, duke, baron, baronet, earl, count, viscount, marquess, marquis, prince, noblewoman, lady, peeress, duchess, marchioness, viscountess, countess, baroness, marquise, princess, knight, chevalier, titled person, person of fashion, member of the ruling class, thoroughbred, optimate, grandee, don, hidalgo, hereditary noble, king, duke, viscount, count, emperor, empress, Graf (German), magnifico, blue blood*, silk-stocking*, swell*; see also king 1, lady 3, lord 2, queen, royalty.

Antonyms citizen*, commoner*, proletarian.

aristocrat Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • marry: She married a British aristocrat, can you believe it?
  • bear: Aristocrat Born with a silver spoon in his or her mouth, or at least into a titled family!
  • rescue: Blackadder, you've just been to France, and you've rescued a French aristocrat... Oh, Blackadder!
  • title: Because of the titled aristocrats who owned them, these estates became collectively known as the ' Dukeries ' .
  • lead: They were persecuted by a revengeful set of aristocrats led by Roger Nowell, King James and the Witchfinder General.
  • visit: Strabo, writing in the reign of Augustus, states that visiting British aristocrats in Rome were not uncommon.

Converse of subject

  • lead: The parliamentarian party was suffused with anti-aristocratic feelings even tho it was led by aristocrats, and indeed partly against their leadership.
  • own: The land reserved is almost wholly owned by aristocrats; with none of it on the land registry.
  • dominate: Dominated by hereditary aristocrats, it has an inbuilt Tory preponderance and little democratic legitimacy.

Adjective modifier

  • wealthy: Improved transport made it an attractive area for wealthy aristocrats to build their country homes.
  • Russian: There was a time when Russian aristocrats at the tsar's court and in high society also made a fad of the French language.
  • French: Blackadder is sick of the hero worship of the children of dead French aristocrats.
  • Italian: The Italian aristocrats were often men of vast wealth but few played any part in public affairs outside their own region.
  • rich: Rich aristocrats paid engineers to explore on their estates, digging deep shafts, hoping to hit coal.
  • English: The idea of having a real live English aristocrat on his staff may have been something which appealed to General Corlette.

Noun used with modifier

  • century: He receives no answer except a vision of 18th century aristocrats moving slowly into the Tsar's palace.
  • labor: This witch-hunt was a service to every force resisting such a break; to trade union bureaucrats, labor aristocrats and opportunists generally.
  • warrior: There is a danger of inadvertently - or knowingly - replacing warrior aristocrats with an equally romantic and misleading view of Iron Age societies.

Possessives

house: I'm going to drive to an aristocrat's house in it.

Preposition: of

world: Raich Carter was an aristocrat of the football world.