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UK
/ˈæɹɪstˌɒkɹæt/
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[ US /ɝˈɪstəˌkɹæt/ ]
[ US /ɝˈɪstəˌkɹæt/ ]
NOUN
- a member of the aristocracy
How To Use aristocrat In A Sentence
- This was also the spot where more than 1000 aristocrats were executed at the guillotine during the French Revolution.
- The film is a picaresque ramble through a half-real Rome in which gridlocked cars are turned into living spaces; cardinals, monsignors and fawning aristocrats preside over Vatican fashion shows; and the district of Trastevere becomes a huge fairground teeming with local characters, guitar-strumming hippies, uniformed carabinieri. Finding Fellini
- But Poe is not un-American, despite his aristocratic disgust with democracy, preference for the exotic, and themes of dehumanization.
- haughty aristocrats
- The tower was originally a summer banqueting house and allowed aristocratic ladies to watch their men hunting.
- In the moralistic atmosphere of 1950s Hollywood, it was tricky to present Colette's account of the risqué demimondaine, and its glorification of the courtesans who relied on wealthy playboys and aristocrats to live in a state of opulence. France's Courtesan Queen Returns to the Silver Screen
- In Greece, rich aristocrats used gold and silver in life, while poor rustics used wooden vessels.
- Not only English society, but Indian princes and princesses, American millionaires, and Continental aristocrats attended this ball attired in sumptuous costumes worth thousands upon thousands of pounds. Mansions of Mayfair | Edwardian Promenade
- He is blinded and befogged by two things: (1) his (i.e. their) aristocratism, and again (2) his satisfaction in splendour and get-up, provided it is attached to moral greatness. Cyropaedia
- Early modern patronage came as before from courts, churches, aristocratic, and merchant families, from religious orders and confraternities.