aristocrat

CEFRC1

/ˈæɹɪstəˌkɹæt/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person from a noble or very wealthy family.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A cipher in which the original punctuation and spacing are retained.

Examples

  • The aristocrat clings to the glory of his past.

  • He's a genuine aristocrat.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
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Citations
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Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A proponent of aristocracy; an advocate of aristocratic government.

  2. One of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in Revolutionary France).

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In context

  • 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 aristocr...

  • Magazines kept aristocrats on the payroll to facilitate access to jet-set playgrounds like Corfu and Mustique.

  • The remains of a Roman aristocrat have been unearthed by archaeologists in northern England.

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Origin

noun

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.