Synonyms for aristocracy
ˌær əˈstɒk rə siaris·toc·ra·cy

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1. nobility, aristocracynoun

   a privileged class holding hereditary titles

   Synonyms:
   nobleness, gentry, grandeur, nobility, noblesse, magnanimousness

2. gentry, aristocracynoun

   the most powerful members of a society

   Synonyms:
   nobility, gentry

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1. • Elite

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1. aristocracynoun

   Synonyms:
   government of nobles or a privileged order

2. aristocracynoun

   Synonyms:
   nobility, noblesse, gentry, peerage, body of nobles, the quality, persons of rank

3. aristocracynoun

   Synonyms:
   [Colloquial.] upper classes, UPPER-TEN, UPPER-CRUST, upper ten thousand

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1. aristocracynoun

   Synonyms:
   peerage, patriciate, nobility, patrician order

   Antonyms:
   commonalty, yeomanry, proletariate, bourgeoisie, peasantry, rabble

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1. List of paraphrases for "aristocracy":

   nobility

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How to use aristocracy in a sentence?

1. Richard Neal:

   The principle here is not to create a permanent aristocracy.

2. G. K. Chesterton:

   There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

3. G. C. Lichtenberg:

   Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law. All the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

4. The Rev. William Barber:

   Bernice King actually said that the systems of segregation and voter suppression were stratagems... that were used by the Southern aristocracy to keep the masses of poor Negro voters and White voters from coming together and forming a political power base that could shift the economic architecture of the country, too often today, our leaders are not talking like that.

5. Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville:

   Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.