Synonyms for aristocracy
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ar-uh-stok-ruh-see |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌær əˈstɒk rə si |
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Définition of aristocracy
Origin :- 1560s, from Middle French aristocracie (Modern French aristocratie), from Late Latin aristocratia, from Greek aristokratia "government or rule of the best," from aristos "best" (originally "most fitting," from PIE *ar-isto-, superlative form of *ar- "to fit together;" see arm (n.1)) + kratos "rule, power" (see -cracy).
- At first in a literal sense of "government by those who are the best citizens;" meaning "rule by a privileged class" (best-born or best-favored by fortune) is from 1570s and became paramount 17c. Hence, the meaning "patrician order" (1650s). In early use contrasted with monarchy; after French and American revolutions, with democracy.
- noun privileged class, government
- He was sorry to see this tendency to aristocracy on the part of members.
- Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 7, May 14, 1870 » by Various
- Such wisdom was altogether above the English aristocracy of that or any time.
- Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
- Without an aristocracy, would there have been a middle class?
- Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- The English aristocracy and the celebrities of London came to the inauguration.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- Living in a country where aristocracy does not exist, he had a high opinion of it.
- Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
- Aristocracy, like any other thing, must justify itself to mankind.
- Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
- It would be a rather poor way to derive the pride of aristocracy.
- Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
- I thought the aristocracy—the very highest—rode in hansoms.'
- Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr
- It is such a pity, too, for the butler is my ideal of what a member of the aristocracy should be.
- Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr
- For push and greed are among the commonest faults of an aristocracy.
- Extract from : « A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume II » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Antonyms for aristocracy
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