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aristocrat
 
SYLLABICATION:a·ris·to·crat
PRONUNCIATION:  -rst-krt, rs-
NOUN:1. A member of a ruling class or of the nobility. 2. A person having the tastes, manners, or other characteristics of the aristocracy: a natural aristocrat who insists on the best accommodations. 3. A person who advocates government by an aristocracy. 4. One considered the best of its kind: the aristocrat of cars.
ETYMOLOGY:French aristocrate, from aristocratie, aristocracy, from Old French, from Late Latin aristocratia. See aristocracy.
OTHER FORMS:a·risto·cratic, a·risto·crati·calADJECTIVE
a·risto·crati·cal·lyADVERB
 
 
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