aristocrat

[ uh-ris-tuh-krat, ar-uh-stuh- ]

noun

1. a member of an aristocracy, especially a noble.

   Synonyms: lord, peer, patrician

2. a person who has the tastes, manners, etc., characteristic of members of an aristocracy.
3. an advocate of an aristocratic form of government.
4. anything regarded as the best, most elegant, or most stylish of its kind:

   the aristocrat of California wines.

aristocrat

/ ˈærɪstəˌkræt /

noun

1. a member of the aristocracy; a noble
2. a person who has the manners or qualities of a member of a privileged or superior class
3. a person who advocates aristocracy as a form of government

Word History and Origins

Origin of aristocrat¹

First recorded in 1770–80; from French aristocrate, back formation from aristocratie aristocracy

Example Sentences

He was a genuine modernizer who built cities, factories and universities and took land away from aristocrats to give to peasants.

From Washington Post

In 1948, Charles Aron, co-owner of Aristocrat, divorced his wife, Evelyn.

From The Daily Beast

The French aristocrat Marquis de Sade once said that “It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.”

From The Daily Beast

He was a lowly country lawyer and she a Kentucky aristocrat who had come to visit her older sister in Illinois.

From The Daily Beast

Where Kate is mild-mannered and middle-class, Cressy, 24, is a wild, blue-blooded aristocrat with bohemian heritage.

From The Daily Beast

Will she settle down to a life of quiet obscurity and shooting parties and marry an aristocrat like the establishment hopes?

From The Daily Beast

Mistress of the Chevalier de Valois, and mother of a child that was attributed to the old aristocrat.

From Project Gutenberg

To-morrow he would be riding towards Paris, the cavalier of a beautiful aristocrat.

From Project Gutenberg

You will go most easily as a woman of the people, one who has some aristocrat enemy on whom she wishes to be avenged.

From Project Gutenberg

Over the wine the stranger had certainly expressed distrust of Lucien Bruslart, an aristocrat turned patriot.

From Project Gutenberg

Bruslart knew that to pity the aristocrat might be hardly more dangerous than to abuse the woman.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• noble