Aristocracy - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˌærɪˈstɑːkrəsɪ|
Brit.
|ˌærɪˈstɒkrəsɪ|
noun
- a privileged class holding hereditary titles (syn: nobility)
- the most powerful members of a society (syn: gentry)
- the most powerful members of a society (syn: gentry)
Extra examples
...at one time in China only the aristocracy could own land...
The aristocracy supported the military dictatorship.
...the protagonist of the novel is a composite of several real-life courtesans who plied their trade among the decadent aristocracy...
It was the last cast of the dice for the old party of the aristocracy.
Britain's landowning aristocracy
...a comedy show that invariably portrays the British aristocracy as a bunch of gormless twits...
The burden of what he said was to defend enthusiastically the conservative aristocracy.
Prussian aristocracy
Word forms
noun
singular: aristocracy
plural: aristocracies
singular: aristocracy
plural: aristocracies
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