Definitions for aristocracy

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aristocracy ar·is·toc·ra·cy

Spelling: [ar-uh-stok-ruh-see]

IPA: /ˌær əˈstɒk rə si/

Aristocracy is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 551 anagrams from letters in aristocracy (aacciorrsty).

Definitions for aristocracy

noun

1. a class of persons holding exceptional rank and privileges, especially the hereditary nobility.
2. a government or state ruled by an aristocracy, elite, or privileged upper class.
3. government by those considered to be the best or most able people in the state.
4. a governing body composed of those considered to be the best or most able people in the state.
5. any class or group considered to be superior, as through education, ability, wealth, or social prestige.

Origin of aristocracy

1555-65; (Middle French aristocratie) Medieval Latin aristocracia (variant of -tia) Greek aristokratía rule of the best. See aristo-, -cracy

Examples for aristocracy

Why, I wonder, is Davenport so obsessed with defining himself as part of the British aristocracy?

aristocracy, like any other thing, must justify itself to mankind.

Kennedy mixed socially with leading British figures, particularly among the aristocracy, who agreed with him.

Such wisdom was altogether above the English aristocracy of that or any time.

Without an aristocracy, would there have been a middle class?

Living in a country where aristocracy does not exist, he had a high opinion of it.

Her father was a Viscount, so Taylor married into the Catalan aristocracy.

Undoubtedly, the enormous inherited fortunes of the aristocracy facilitated a certain eccentricity.

The British aristocracy is littered with stories of unmitigated spendthrifts who seem bent on self-destruction.

He was sorry to see this tendency to aristocracy on the part of members.