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Webster 1913 Edition
Aristocrat
1.
One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble.
2.
One who is overbearing in his temper or habits; a proud or haughty person.
A born
aristocrat
, bred radical. Mrs. Browning.
3.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Aristocrat
ARIST'OCRAT
,Noun.
Definition 2024
aristocrat
aristocrat
English
Noun
aristocrat (plural aristocrats)
- One of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in Revolutionary France).
- A proponent of aristocracy; an advocate of aristocratic government.
- 1974: Plato (author) and Desmond Lee (translator), The Republic (2nd edition, revised; Penguin Classics; ISBN 0140440488), Translator’s Introduction, pages 51 and 53:
- 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.
- 1974: Plato (author) and Desmond Lee (translator), The Republic (2nd edition, revised; Penguin Classics; ISBN 0140440488), Translator’s Introduction, pages 51 and 53:
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- See also Wikisaurus:nobleman
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Translations
one of the aristocracy
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