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Aristocracy Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Aristocracy? [n] the most powerful members of a society [n] a privileged class holding hereditary titles Synonyms \| Synonyms for Aristocracy: gentry \| nobility Related Terms \| Find terms related to Aristocracy: absolute monarchy \| aedileship \| ancestry \| ancienne noblesse \| archbishopric \| archiepiscopacy \| archiepiscopate \| aristocraticalness \| autarchy \| autocracy \| autonomy \| baronage \| baronetage \| barons \| beau monde \| birth \| bishopric \| blood \| blue blood \| bon ton \| carriage trade \| chairmanship \| chancellery \| chancellorate \| chancellorship \| chiefery \| chiefry \| chieftaincy \| chieftainry \| chieftainship \| chivalry \| coalition government \| colonialism \| commonwealth \| constitutional government \| constitutional monarchy \| consulate \| consulship \| county \| cream \| deanery \| democracy \| dictatorship \| dictature \| directorship \| distinction \| dominion rule \| duarchy \| duumvirate \| dyarchy \| elect \| elite \| emirate \| episcopacy \| establishment \| federal government \| federation \| feudal system \| FFVs \| flower \| garrison state \| genteelness \| gentility \| gentry \| gerontocracy \| governorship \| haut monde \| headship \| hegemony \| heteronomy \| hierarchy \| hierocracy \| high life \| high society \| home rule \| honorable descent \| jet set \| knightage \| leadership \| limited monarchy \| lords of creation \| lordship \| magistracy \| magistrateship \| magistrature \| martial law \| masterdom \| mastership \| mastery \| mayoralty \| mayorship \| meritocracy \| metropolitanate \| metropolitanship \| militarism \| military government \| mob rule \| mobocracy \| monarchy \| neocolonialism \| nobility \| noble birth \| nobleness \| noblesse \| noblesse de robe \| ochlocracy \| old nobility \| oligarchy \| overlapping \| pantisocracy \| papacy \| pashadom \| pashalic \| patriarchate \| patriarchy \| patricians \| patriciate \| peerage \| police state \| pontificality \| pontificate \| popedom \| popehood \| popeship \| power elite \| power structure \| prefectship \| prefecture \| premiership \| presidency \| presidentship \| prime-ministership \| prime-ministry \| princedom \| princeship \| principality \| proconsulate \| proconsulship \| protectorate \| protectorship \| provostry \| provostship \| pure democracy \| quality \| rank \| rectorate \| rectorship \| regency \| regentship \| representative democracy \| representative government \| republic \| royalty \| ruling circles \| ruling class \| seigniory \| self-determination \| self-government \| seneschalship \| seneschalsy \| sheikhdom \| sheriffalty \| sheriffcy \| sheriffdom \| shrievalty \| smart set \| social democracy \| society \| stratocracy \| supervisorship \| suzerainship \| suzerainty \| technocracy \| the best \| the best people \| the brass \| the classes \| the Four Hundred \| thearchy \| theocracy \| top people \| totalitarian government \| totalitarian regime \| triarchy \| tribunate \| triumvirate \| tyranny \| upper class \| upper classes \| upper crust \| upper ten \| upper ten thousand \| uppercut \| vizierate \| viziership \| welfare state See Also \| aristocrat \| baronage \| blue blood \| elite \| Ferdinand and Isabella \| knighthood \| landed gentry \| lords temporal \| noblesse \| patrician \| peerage \| samurai \| second estate \| squirearchy \| upper class \| upper crust \| William and Mary Aristocracy In Webster's Dictionary \Ar`istoc"racy\, n.; pl. {Aristocracies}. [Gr. ?; ? best + ? to be strong, to rule, ? strength; ? is perh. from the same root as E. arm, and orig. meant fitting: cf. F. aristocratie. See {Arm}, and {Create}, which is related to Gr. ?.] 1. Government by the best citizens. 2. A ruling body composed of the best citizens. [Obs.] In the Senate Right not our quest in this, I will protest them To all the world, no aristocracy. --B. Jonson. 3. A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy. The aristocracy of Venice hath admitted so many abuses, trough the degeneracy of the nobles, that the period of its duration seems approach. --Swift. 4. The nobles or chief persons in a state; a privileged class or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in rank, fortune, or intellect.

Aristocracy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Aristocracy?

[n] the most powerful members of a society
[n] a privileged class holding hereditary titles

Synonyms | Synonyms for Aristocracy: gentry | nobility

Aristocracy In Webster's Dictionary

\Ar`is*toc"ra*cy\, n.; pl. {Aristocracies}. [Gr. ?;
? best + ? to be strong, to rule, ? strength; ? is perh. from
the same root as E. arm, and orig. meant fitting: cf. F.
aristocratie. See {Arm}, and {Create}, which is related to
Gr. ?.]
1. Government by the best citizens.

2. A ruling body composed of the best citizens. [Obs.]

         In the Senate Right not our quest in this, I will
         protest them To all the world, no aristocracy. --B.
                                               Jonson.

3. A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested
   in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged
   order; an oligarchy.

         The aristocracy of Venice hath admitted so many
         abuses, trough the degeneracy of the nobles, that
         the period of its duration seems approach. --Swift.

4. The nobles or chief persons in a state; a privileged class
   or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are
   regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in
   rank, fortune, or intellect.

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