different between aristocrat vs plutocrat

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

Alternative forms

• ploutocrat (archaic)

Etymology

From pluto- +? -crat, after plutocracy, from Ancient Greek ??????? (ploûtos, “wealth, riches”) + ?????? (krátos, “power, might”).

Noun

plutocrat (plural plutocrats)

1. Someone who rules by virtue of his or her wealth.

   Synonyms: oligarch, (rare) tycoonocrat

Related terms

• plutocracy
• plutocratic

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French ploutocrate

Noun

plutocrat m (plural plutocra?i)

1. plutocrat

Declension