aristo

¹

[ uh-ris-toh ]

noun

, Chiefly British Informal.

, plural a·ris·tos.

1. aristocrat.

aristo-

²

1. a learned borrowing from Greek meaning “best,” occurring either in direct loans ( aristocratic ), or in the formation of compound words:

   aristotype.

aristo

/ əˈrɪstəʊ; ˈærɪstəʊ /

noun

1. informal.
   short for aristocrat

Word History and Origins

Origin of aristo¹

1860–65; by shortening; -o

Origin of aristo²

< Greek, combining form of áristos best, superlative of ari- probably a term specifying at first the upper class of society, the warrior caste; Ares, perhaps Aryan

Example Sentences

Neither did two other publishers of textbooks that denied Hong Kong’s colonial status: Aristo Educational Press and Modern Educational Research Society.

From New York Times

The unexpected next big things turned out to be very particularly British: bad-waif Kate Moss, and cool aristo Stella Tennant, who arrived on the pages of British Vogue in 1993.

From The Guardian

"Once it came out that he was an 'aristo' it was all over," Stuart once said.

From BBC

Raised in a San Francisco orphanage, educated at Princeton, he has fathered two sets of twins with his Scottish aristo wife, who is herself “eighteenth cousin to the Queen twice removed or something.”

From Los Angeles Times

But a relationship with a woman who, never mind a ring on her finger, would probably not be allowed round an aristo dining table … it looks a tiny bit like using her.

From The Guardian