different between aristocrat vs chevalier

English

Etymology

From French aristocrate (a word from the French Revolution), from aristocratie (English aristocracy), from Ancient Greek ??????? (áristos, “best”) (compare Old English ar) + ?????? (krátos, “rule”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æ??st??k?æt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????st?k?æt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Noun

aristocrat (plural aristocrats)

1. One of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in Revolutionary France).
2. A proponent of aristocracy; an advocate of aristocratic government.
   • 1974: Plato (author) and Desmond Lee (translator), The Republic (2nd edition, revised; Penguin Classics; ?ISBN, Translator’s Introduction, pages 51 and 53:

     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.

Antonyms

• commoner
• plebeian

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:nobleman

Related terms

• aristocracy
• aristocratic

Translations

Anagrams

• traciators

Romanian

Etymology

From French aristocrate

Noun

aristocrat m (plural aristocra?i)

1. aristocrat

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English chivaler or chevaler (also shyvalere while code-switching), from Anglo-Norman chevaler or chivaler, later refashioned after French chevalier, from Late Latin caballarius (“horseman”), from Latin caballus (“horse”). Doublet of cavalier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???v??l??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

chevalier (plural chevaliers)

1. A cavalier; a knight.
2. In tarot cards, the card between the valet and the dame

References

French

Etymology

From Middle French chevalier, from Old French chevalier, from Late Latin caball?rius, from Latin caballus. Doublet of cavalier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.va.lje/
• Rhymes: -je

Noun

chevalier m (plural chevaliers, feminine chevalière)

1. knight
2. sandpiper (bird)

Derived terms

Related terms

• cheval
• chevalerie
• chevalière

Descendants

• Turkish: ?övalye

Further reading

• “chevalier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Alternative forms

• shyvalere

Etymology

From Old French chevalier.

Noun

chevalier m (plural chevaliers)

1. knight

Related terms

• cheval

Descendants

• French: chevalier

Old French

Alternative forms

• cevalier (Picardy)
• chevaler (Anglo-Norman)
• chivaler (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

From Late Latin caball?rius, from Latin caballus. Compare Old Occitan cavalier.

Noun

chevalier m (oblique plural chevaliers, nominative singular chevaliers, nominative plural chevalier)

1. knight
2. (chess) knight

Descendants

• ? English: chevalier
• Middle French: chevalier
  • French: chevalier
  • Norman: quevalier
  • Picard: cvalier
  • Bourguignon: chevaulei

References