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aristocracy
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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- ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE landed ▪ They expressed the triumph of legal equality and state authority over the privileges of the landed aristocracy . ▪ This alliance of the monarchs with the army and the landed aristocracy lasted into the ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The nobility, or the hereditary ruling class 2 government by such a class, or a state with such a government 3 A class of people considered (not normally universally) superior to others
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Aristocracy ( Greek ἀριστοκρατία aristokratía , from ἄριστος aristos "excellent," and κράτος kratos "power") is a form of government that places power in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class . The term derives from the Greek aristokratia , meaning ...
Usage examples of aristocracy.
His reason voluntarily consigned her to the aristocracy as a natural appanage: but he did amorously wish that Fortune had made a lord of him.
According to his theories, the elixir would have excellent properties for annihilating the aristocracy and giving the universe to the poor.
Of an arthritic little islander, whose French and African blood had strained its way into the Jamaican aristocracy and MI5 by way of Eton and Oxford.
She supposed it went over well in the junior mess of the Royal Space Service, where the young sprouts of aristocracy and wealth flaunted their boughten commissions in the intervals of leave and training.
Apparently only to substitute the autocracy of a new proletarian aristocracy for the autocracy of the old regime, and the czardom of Lenine and Trotzky for that of the Romanoffs.
The area of the colony was 460,000 square miles, of which area 124,000 square miles were occupied by that singular aristocracy called squatters, men who rent vast tracts of land from Government for the depasturing of their flocks, at an almost nominal sum, subject to a tax of so much a head on their sheep and cattle.
I have ranked feudalism under the head of barbarism, rejected every species of political aristocracy, and represented the English constitution as essentially antagonistic to the American, not as its type.
Claims the thing was found by somebody called Karvur, a count in some feudalistic aristocracy down there.
In the early days, it offered a much more sedate and satisfactory homesite than Washington, so that it became the section of aristocracy, of First Families.
They have appeared in autocracies, aristocracies, theocracies, democracies, and ochlocracies, all alike.
I know your feelings about the aristocracy, Somers, but I will tell you, I think this young man is a fine gentleman and will do everything within his power to make your daughter happy.
But the Baroness had a deep-rooted prejudice in favour of the old aristocracy, and guessed that it would afterwards be counted to her for righteousness if she could be the first to offer boundless sympathy and limited help to the distressed family.
This was a great gain for the aristocracy, since the offenses for which they were usually brought to trial, such as bribery, malversation, and the like, were so commonly practiced by the whole order, that they were, in most cases, nearly certain of acquittal from men who required similar indulgence themselves.
She had been an untamed mestiza of the so-called shopkeeper aristocracy: seductive, rapacious, brazen, with a hunger in her womb that could have satisfied an entire barracks.
This total revolution marked the victory of democracy over aristocracy, parliamentarism over the State, mass over quality, Reason over Faith, equality-ideals over organic hierarchy, of Money over Blood, of Liberalism, pluralism, free capitalism, and criticism over the organic forces of Tradition, State and Authority, and in one word, of Civilization over Culture.