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.