Aristocrat

Quick meaning: Aristocrat is a noun meaning One of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in Revolutionary France).

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A proponent of aristocracy; an advocate of aristocratic government.
2. (cryptography) A cipher in which the original punctuation and spacing are retained.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

• aristocrats

Synonyms for aristocrat

Depending on context, synonyms include patrician.

Antonyms for aristocrat

Common opposites include commoner, plebeian.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include patrician, nobleman, aristocracy, nobility, aristo, aristocratess.

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