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/ˈæɹɪstəˌkɹæt/ · noun
One of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in Revolutionary France)..
The remains of a Roman aristocrat have been unearthed by archaeologists in northern England.
Magazines kept aristocrats on the payroll to facilitate access to jet-set playgrounds like Corfu and Mustique.
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.
Use aristocrat when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Aristocrat means One of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in Revolutionary France)..
Common synonyms include blue blood, patrician.
Possible antonyms include commoner, plebeian.
The remains of a Roman aristocrat have been unearthed by archaeologists in northern England.
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