Crossword clues for aristocrat
aristocrat
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aristocrat \A*ris"to*crat\ (?; 277), n. [F. aristocrate. See Aristocracy.]
One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble.
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One who is overbearing in his temper or habits; a proud or haughty person.
A born aristocrat, bred radical.
--Mrs. Browning. -
One who favors an aristocracy as a form of government, or believes the aristocracy should govern.
His whole family are accused of being aristocrats.
--Romilly.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1789, from French aristocrate, a word of the Revolution, a back-formation from aristocratie (see aristocracy).
Wiktionary
n. 1 One of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in Revolutionary France). 2 A proponent of aristocracy; an advocate of aristocratic government.
WordNet
n. a member of the aristocracy [syn: blue blood, patrician]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
An aristocrat is a person that a particular social order considers in the highest social class of that society.
Aristocrat and aristocracy can also refer to:
Aristocrat is a Japanese street fashion that is inspired by what is thought to have been worn by middle class and higher social status Europeans in the Middle Ages, as well as the upper class in the 19th century. The fashion includes long sleeve blouses and shirts, long skirts, corsetry, and pants and dresses that are styled similarly for men and women, since it is centered on androgyny and elegance. Most aristocrat fashion takes heavy influence from gothic fashion. Makeup, when worn with the fashion, is on the darker side, may be heavy, and can be worn by both genders.
Elegant Gothic Aristocrat (EGA) is a term coined by Mana, a fashion designer and former band leader of Malice Mizer, and is used to describe his brand of clothing carried in his store Moi-même-Moitié.
Usage examples of "aristocrat".
A Corporal First might prove to have more combat acumen than a stately aristocrat from one of the old famifies--and such could not be permitted since it undermined the myth of aristocratic invincibility.
The daughters of Macedonian aristocrats, they had been given to Cleopatra when all three were small children, to be the royal companions of the second daughter of King Ptolemy Auletes and Queen Cleopatra Tryphaena, a daughter of King Mithridates of Pontus by his queen.
In France, simple beheading had formerly been reserved for aristocrats, but now everyone in the newly classless society could enjoy its benefits.
The one is an aristocrat whom Fortune made too small in every way, and the other is a rigid, intolerant hypocrite who prosecutes men for electoral bribery but approves of electoral bribery when it meets his own needs.
His testicles had been enucleated in his fourteenth year, a little late perhaps, and at the direction of his father, a Macedonian aristocrat with huge ambitions for his very bright son.
He was exceptionally well garbed and looked every bit the Carolina aristocrat that he was.
Atretes looked the young aristocrat over as he was making practice swings with his gladius, then grinned at Bato.
Parisian National Guard strained his mediating talents beyond their limits because the crowd and the Assembly and the king and the aristocrats developed widely divergent interpretations about the nature of the Revolution.
Soudanese Negroes who had danced the wild dance appeared leading two white meharis, running camels, aristocrats of the camel world.
Thsee Rith, an Almurali aristocrat, majority stockholder in Lantern Enterprises.
Guild does not heal aristocrats, as you all know, and perhaps Lady Sarai resents that.
Booths and tables were set up in the courtyard, selling everything that could be imagined: confiscated church relics, silver tea services, candlesticks, snuffers, used clothing of every description, much of it clearly from the closets of aristocrats now dead, banished or merely impoverished.
Aristocrats argued that the urgent task was to improve the calibre of the creative intelligence which led the human advance, gradually specializing all the castes for their peculiar functions, the clerks for clerking, the manuals for hand-labour, and so on.
It has claimed to be a polished aristocrat, when in reality it has only been a coarse, swaggering, and brutal boor.
Now, let us hail yon taximeter cab, and desire the stern-faced aristocrat on the box to drive us to Dulwich.