elite
IPA: ɪɫˈit
noun
- A special group or social class of people which have a superior intellectual, social or economic status as, the elite of society.
- Someone who is among the best at a certain task.
- (typography) A typeface with 12 characters per inch.
adjective
- Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.
- Representing the choicest or most select of a group.
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Examples of "elite" in Sentences
- Just like in Mexico, where the elite is almost all white.
- There was a time, a dozen years ago, the term elite was carried with them quite a bit.
- Mr Little acknowledged that Eton had a reputation for elitism but insisted that "what we need to do is reclaim the word elite".
- Nelson Ramodike, and what he described as his elite group, were of more importance to the ANC than the suffering of ordinary people.
- He resumed his criticism of the US media, a line popular with Republican audiences, and what he called the elite in New York and Washington.
- I think the term elite is used in that sense to contrast these cultural elites with, again, business elites who at least had to you know, they had to make money.
- But the term elite has not yet been plasticized into the absurd, and it still retains a certain connotation that can change depending on what we use it to modify.
- Look around you, these people kwhitegocubs 4 minutes ago 10:34 PM Somebody decided to comment without reading the commentary , looking at statistics, evaluating our real-world income and wealth inequality , and having any idea what the word "elite" means.
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