Optimate

Quick meaning: Optimate is a noun meaning (historical) A member of the patrician ruling class in republican Ancient Rome; an aristocrat, a noble.

Meaning

(historical) A member of the patrician ruling class in republican Ancient Rome; an aristocrat, a noble.

Example Sentences

The elaboration of her sateen costume (somewhat dirty and torn now) showed that she was an optimate.

Over the same decade, the upper stratum of Visigothic society, the optimates gradually lost their influence.

Word Forms

• optimates

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include patritian, patriciate, patrician, patricianhood, patricianship, patricianism.

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