| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | a·ris·to·crat |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -r s t-kr t , rs- |
| NOUN: | 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. | | OTHER FORMS: | a·risto·cratic, a·risto·crati·cal —ADJECTIVE
a·risto·crati·cal·ly —ADVERB
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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