ARISTOCRATIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aristocratic mean? 

• ARISTOCRATIC (adjective)
  The adjective ARISTOCRATIC has 1 sense:

1. belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

  Familiarity information: ARISTOCRATIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARISTOCRATIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

Synonyms:

aristocratic; aristocratical; blue; blue-blooded; gentle; patrician

Context example:

patrician tastes

Similar:

noble (of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times)

Derivation:

aristocracy (the most powerful members of a society)

aristocracy (a privileged class holding hereditary titles)

 Context examples 

Then, with an extraordinary effort of aristocratic self-command, he sat down and sank his face in his hands.

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

The idea of my being aristocratic and well-bred, and your being afraid to go anywhere alone!

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When he was young he became a member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long purses and expensive habits.

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

I smiled as I unfolded it, and devised how I would tease you about your aristocratic tastes, and your efforts to masque your plebeian bride in the attributes of a peeress.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Lord John Roxton and I turned down Vigo Street together and through the dingy portals of the famous aristocratic rookery.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In appearance he was a man of exceedingly aristocratic type, thin, high-nosed, and large-eyed, with languid and yet courtly manners.

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

And while Martin told him, he was busy studying Brissenden, ranging from a long, lean, aristocratic face and drooping shoulders to the overcoat on a neighboring chair, its pockets sagged and bulged by the freightage of many books.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She was of strict integrity herself, with a delicate sense of honour; but she was as desirous of saving Sir Walter's feelings, as solicitous for the credit of the family, as aristocratic in her ideas of what was due to them, as anybody of sense and honesty could well be.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Today was fair, and we went to Hyde Park, close by, for we are more aristocratic than we look.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The next the aristocratic mask was replaced, and the gentle voice had returned.

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