aristocrat en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /əˈɹɪstəˌkɹæt/ (US)
- /ˈæɹɪstəˌkɹæt/ (UK)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From French aristocrate (“aristocrat”), attested once in the 16th century but recoined in the Revolutionary era, from aristocratie (“aristocracy”), from Medieval Latin aristocratia, from Ancient Greek ἀριστοκρατία (aristokratía), from ἄριστος (áristos, “best”) (compare Old English ar) + κράτος (krátos, “rule”). By surface analysis, aristo- + -crat.
Meanings
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One of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in Revolutionary France).
Magazines kept aristocrats on the payroll to facilitate access to jet-set playgrounds like Corfu and Mustique.
2025 June 27, Michael M. Grynbaum, “The Concorde-and-Caviar Era of Condé Nast, When Magazines Ruled the Earth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2025:The remains of a Roman aristocrat have been unearthed by archaeologists in northern England.
2023 March 13, Lianne Kolirin, “Skeletal remains of Roman aristocrat discovered in hidden lead coffin”, in CNN, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2024:
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A proponent of aristocracy; an advocate of aristocratic government.
Professor Fite, in The Platonic Legend, deprecates earlier idealization, and finds Plato to be an aristocrat, something of a snob, and the advocate of a restrictively organized society. […] Plato was, as has so often been observed, temperamentally an aristocrat. And he believed that the qualities needed in his rulers were, in general, hereditary, and that given knowledge and opportunity you could deliberately breed for them.
1974: Plato (author) and Desmond Lee (translator), The Republic (2nd edition, revised; Penguin Classics; →ISBN), Translator’s Introduction, pages 51 and 53
- A cipher in which the original punctuation and spacing are retained.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| aristocrats | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Coordinates
Deriveds
aristocratism · antiaristocrat · aristocratess · aristocratisation · Afristocrat · aristocratical · nonaristocrat
Relateds
Translations (65)
de Aristokrat (one of the aristocracy) · mk аристокра́тка (one of the aristocracy) · cs šlechtic (one of the aristocracy) · fi ylimys (one of the aristocracy) · bo སྐུ་དྲག (one of the aristocracy) · ur اشراف (one of the aristocracy) · nb aristokrat (one of the aristocracy) · uk аристокра́т (one of the aristocracy) · sq fisnik (one of the aristocracy) · ru аристокра́тка (one of the aristocracy) · pl szlachcianka (one of the aristocracy) · ar أَرِسْتُقْرَاطِيّ (one of the aristocracy) · hu arisztokrata (one of the aristocracy) · gl aristócrata (one of the aristocracy) · eo aristokrato (one of the aristocracy) · ar أَرِسْتُقْرَاطِيَّة (one of the aristocracy) · sh aristòkrat (one of the aristocracy) · it aristocratico (one of the aristocracy) · fr aristocrate (one of the aristocracy) · bo སྒེར་པ (one of the aristocracy) · mk аристокра́т (one of the aristocracy) · sk šľachtic (one of the aristocracy) · be арыстакра́т (one of the aristocracy) · pl szlachcic (one of the aristocracy) · ru аристокра́т (one of the aristocracy) · ga uaslathaí (one of the aristocracy) · el ευγενής (one of the aristocracy) · ms aristokrat (one of the aristocracy) · ca aristòcrata (one of the aristocracy) · kk ақсүйек (one of the aristocracy) · sh aristòkratkinja (one of the aristocracy) · sk šľachtičná (one of the aristocracy) · ms bangsawan (one of the aristocracy) · ka წარჩინებული (one of the aristocracy) · cs šlechtična (one of the aristocracy) · nn aristokrat (one of the aristocracy) · cy gŵr bruh (one of the aristocracy) · uk аристокра́тка (one of the aristocracy) · it aristocratica (one of the aristocracy) · ko 귀족 (one of the aristocracy) · ja 貴族 (one of the aristocracy) · ka არისტოკრატი (one of the aristocracy) · ja アリストクラット (one of the aristocracy) · hi कुलीनतंत्र (one of the aristocracy) · cmn 貴族 /贵族 (one of the aristocracy) · hi कुलीन (one of the aristocracy) · ka თავადი (one of the aristocracy) · ka დიდებული (one of the aristocracy) · be арыстакра́тка (one of the aristocracy) · sv aristokrat (one of the aristocracy) · de Aristokratin (one of the aristocracy) · sq aristokrat (one of the aristocracy) · bg аристокра́т (one of the aristocracy) · dsb aristokrat (one of the aristocracy) · pl arystokrata (one of the aristocracy) · es aristócrata (one of the aristocracy) · fi aristokraatti (one of the aristocracy) · io aristokrato (one of the aristocracy) · mk велможа (one of the aristocracy) · pt aristocrata (one of the aristocracy) · pl arystokratka (one of the aristocracy) · da aristokrat (one of the aristocracy) · bg аристокра́тка (one of the aristocracy) · nl aristocraat (one of the aristocracy) · la optimās (one of the aristocracy)