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aristocratic
English
Alternative forms
- aristocratick (obsolete)
Etymology
From French aristocratique, from Ancient Greek ?????????????? (aristokratikós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æ??st??k?æt?k/
- Rhymes: -æt?k
Adjective
aristocratic (comparative more aristocratic, superlative most aristocratic)
- Of, pertaining to, or favouring, an aristocracy
- An aristocratic constitution.
- Similar to the aristocracy; characteristic of, the aristocracy.
- An aristocratic measure.
- Aristocratic pride or manners.
Related terms
- aristocracy
- aristocrat
Translations
References
- aristocratic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Romanian
Etymology
From French aristocratique
Adjective
aristocratic m or n (feminine singular aristocratic?, masculine plural aristocratici, feminine and neuter plural aristocratice)
- aristocratic
Declension
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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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