ARISTOCRAT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of aristocrat in English

(Definition of aristocrat from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of aristocrat

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It consisted of aristocrats with recent titles, who rose from the very ranks of the municipal elite.
However, their closest collaborators remained and have acted as surrogate aristocrats.
It is aptly described as a ' bourgeois revolution ' since only a few citizen bishops were blueblooded, whereas their predecessors were aristocrats almost to a man.
Leopold feels socially inadequate in the company of aristocrats.
Together with the courtiers and aristocrats, new consumers included the well-to-do gentry and merchants who tried to imitate the lifestyles of the social elite.
The old aristocrats had some secrets, or amabanga, as well.
Manufacturing capitalism has everywhere "been recruited from the higher strata of artisans and from aristocrats who had turned bourgeois" (p. 157).
The wealth of the regidores also re-ected these changes; apart from a handful of opulent aristocrats, the majority possessed more modest means than their ancestors.
These qualities take on a further nationalistic tenor when realizing that she was a daughter of an aristocrat.
Not all aristocrats embraced the commercial revolution but those who did already possessed enormous competitive advantages by virtue of their wealth and connections.
The heart of the trope is that a person of upper-class standing, often an aristocrat, has chosen to serve in the ranks.
The army strongly attracted these new aristocrats and became a permanent occupation causing obligatory absences from the city.
On the whole, the aristocrats wrote much more satisfying history.
When a country changes over from the rule of aristocracy to a bourgeois society, the aristocrats still have their own networks.
How determined are the aristocrats to admit no intrusion, and how anxious are the plebians to intrude!
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Translations of aristocrat

in Chinese (Traditional)
貴族, 貴族成員…
in Chinese (Simplified)
贵族, 贵族成员…
in Spanish
aristócrata…
in Portuguese
aristocrata…
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貴族…
aristokrat, soylu…
aristocrate…
aristòcrata…
aristocraat…
aristokrat…
aristokrat…
bangsawan…
der/die Adelige…
aristokrat…
аристократ…
аристократ…
أرُستُقراطيّ…
aristokrat, šlechtic…
keluarga ningrat…
สมาชิกของชนชั้นสูง…
nhà quí tộc…
arystokrat-a/ka, arystokrata…
귀족…
aristocratico, -a…
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