aristocracy
IPA: ɛrʌstˈɑkrʌsi
noun
- The nobility, or the hereditary ruling class.
- Government by such a class, or a state with such a government
- A class of people considered (not normally universally) superior to others
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Examples of "aristocracy" in Sentences
- The agenda of the aristocracy is the destruction of western civilization.
- The word aristocracy appeared late in our language, arriving via France in the mid-sixteenth century.
- Rousseau's preference was for what he calls aristocracy, a government of the most wise and experienced.
- Let no one exclaim against aristocracy; were we all perfectly _equal to-day_, there would be an _aristocracy to-morrow_.
- Throw the whole our way or the highway rant out the window and look where America's new aristocracy is holding thier winter meeting.
- If you want that maybe you should hop in a time machine and go back to pre-revolutionary France where aristocracy is the goverment of choice.
- "You have no doubt remarked," said Florestan, with a smile, "that the persons assembled here this evening do not belong to what we call the aristocracy --"
- On one side the ultras, whose objection to transfer a portion of the Royal authority to what they call the aristocracy, occupy nearly all the posts which influence the operations of the electoral assemblies.
- The Latin American aristocracy - for the most part, and for most of the last two centuries - has combined the worst aspects of aristocracy with the worst aspects of capitalism, and has exhibited the better aspects of neither one.
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