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aristocrat
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)
- One of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in Revolutionary France).
- 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.
- 1974: Plato (author) and Desmond Lee (translator), The Republic (2nd edition, revised; Penguin Classics; ?ISBN, Translator’s Introduction, pages 51 and 53:
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)
- aristocrat
Declension
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oligarch
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????????? (oligárkh?s).
Surface analysis: olig- (“few”) +? -arch (“ruler, leader”)
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?o?l?????k/, /??l?????k/
Noun
oligarch (plural oligarchs)
- A member of an oligarchy; someone who is part of a small group that runs a country.
- (especially Russia, USA, Europe, or China) A very rich person, particularly with political power; a plutocrat.
- Synonyms: plutocrat, tycoonocrat
- (cosmogony) A protoplanet formed during oligarchic accretion.
Related terms
- oligarchal
- oligarchic
- oligarchical
- oligarchy
Translations
Further reading
- oligarch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Dutch
Etymology
Ultimately from Ancient Greek ????????? (oligárkh?s). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?o?.li???rx/
- Hyphenation: oli?garch
- Rhymes: -?rx
Noun
oligarch m (plural oligarchen, diminutive oligarchje n)
- An oligarch (member of an oligarchy). [from late 18th c.]
- A plutocrat, an oligarch, especially in relation to the former Eastern Bloc. [from late 20th c.]
- Synonym: plutocraat
Related terms
- oligarchie
- oligarchisch
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