Definitions for aristocracies

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aristocracies ar·is·toc·ra·cy

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

IPA: /ˌær əˈstɒk rə si/

Aristocracies is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 1078 anagrams from letters in aristocracies (aacceiiorrsst).

Definitions for aristocracies

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 aristocracies

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

Examples for aristocracies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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