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US
/ˌɛɹəˈstɑkɹəsi/
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[ UK /ˌæɹɪstˈɒkɹəsi/ ]
[ UK /ˌæɹɪstˈɒkɹəsi/ ]
NOUN
- the most powerful members of a society
- a privileged class holding hereditary titles
How To Use aristocracy In A Sentence
- The aristocracy are made to look like buffoons; the women swoon, the maids are oversexed, and the artist himself - the center of everyone's fawning attention - plays the dandy.
- The two could no longer coexist and it was therefore a class struggle between the Southern slaveholding aristocracy and the Northern capitalist democracy.
- These terms were agreeable to the Magyar aristocracy, but could not satisfy the revolutionaries or moderates among the lesser nobility.
- The tremendous pressure placed on Louisville workers to cater to the horse aristocracy was not limited to industries in direct contact with race fans.
- Therefore, the monastic reforms should be regarded at least as much in the light of co-operation as of combat between king and aristocracy.
- They expressed the triumph of legal equality and state authority over the privileges of the landed aristocracy.
- There was no striking surge of bourgeois capital into land, no great expropriation of the landed aristocracy or gentry.
- These groups were the intelligentsia, civil servants, the labour aristocracy, and successful petty producers.
- He had then made the time-worn accusation that the pretensions of the courts reduced the kingdom to an aristocracy of magistrates.
- Classes are obvious - there were the aristocracy, the middle class or bourgeois, and of course the peasantry or rustic class.