ARISTOCRAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aristocrat mean? 

• ARISTOCRAT (noun)
  The noun ARISTOCRAT has 1 sense:

1. a member of the aristocracy

  Familiarity information: ARISTOCRAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARISTOCRAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the aristocracy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

aristocrat; blue blood; patrician

Hypernyms ("aristocrat" is a kind of...):

leader (a person who rules or guides or inspires others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aristocrat"):

baronet; Bart (a member of the British order of honor; ranks below a baron but above a knight)

brahman; brahmin (a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family))

female aristocrat (a woman who is an aristocrat)

Highness ((Your Highness or His Highness or Her Highness) title used to address a royal person)

male aristocrat (a man who is an aristocrat)

prince (a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign))

princess (a female member of a royal family other than the queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign))

raja; rajah (a prince or king in India)

ranee; rani ((the feminine of raja) a Hindu princess or the wife of a raja)

Holonyms ("aristocrat" is a member of...):

aristocracy; nobility (a privileged class holding hereditary titles)

Derivation:

aristocratical (belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy)

 Context examples 

They showed how the officers of the old French Navy had nearly all been aristocrats.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet it was upon this easy-going young aristocrat that death came, in most strange and unexpected form, between the hours of ten and eleven-twenty on the night of March 30, 1894.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

During the four years since his puppyhood he had lived the life of a sated aristocrat; he had a fine pride in himself, was even a trifle egotistical, as country gentlemen sometimes become because of their insular situation.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Encouraged by these cries, the young aristocrat advanced upon his man.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the further end, very much at his ease amongst the aristocrats and exquisites who surrounded him, sat the Champion of England, his superb figure thrown back in his chair, a flush upon his handsome face, and a loose red handkerchief knotted carelessly round his throat in the picturesque fashion which was long known by his name.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No man who looked upon that motley crowd could deny that, for good or evil, the love of the ring was confined to no class, but was a national peculiarity, deeply seated in the English nature, and a common heritage of the young aristocrat in his drag and of the rough costers sitting six deep in their pony cart.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)