aristocrat

English

Etymology

From French aristocrate (“aristocrat”), attested once in the 16th century but recoined in the Revolutionary era, from aristocratie (“aristocracy”), from Medieval Latin aristocratia, from Ancient Greek ἀριστοκρατία (aristokratía), from ἄριστος (áristos, “best”) (compare Old English ar) + κράτος (krátos, “rule”). By surface analysis, aristo- +‎ -crat.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæɹɪstəˌkɹæt/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈɹɪstəkɹæt/

Noun

aristocrat (plural aristocrats)

1. One of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in Revolutionary France).
2. A proponent of aristocracy; an advocate of aristocratic government.
   • 1974: Plato (author) and Desmond Lee (translator), The Republic (2nd edition, revised; Penguin Classics; →ISBN, Translator’s Introduction, pages 51 and 53:

     Professor Fite, in The Platonic Legend, deprecates earlier idealization, and finds Plato to be an aristocrat, something of a snob, and the advocate of a restrictively organized society.

     […]

     Plato was, as has so often been observed, temperamentally an aristocrat. And he believed that the qualities needed in his rulers were, in general, hereditary, and that given knowledge and opportunity you could deliberately breed for them.

Antonyms

• commoner
• plebeian

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:nobleman

Related terms

• aristocracy
• aristocratic

Translations

one of the aristocracy

• Albanian:fisnik (sq), aristokrat (sq)
• Arabic: أَرِسْتُقْرَاطِيّ m (ʔaristuqrāṭiyy), أَرِسْتُقْرَاطِيَّة f (ʔaristuqrāṭiyya)
• Belarusian: арыстакра́т m (arystakrát), арыстакра́тка f (arystakrátka)
• Bulgarian: аристокра́т (bg) m (aristokrát), аристокра́тка f (aristokrátka)
• Catalan: aristòcrata (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貴族／贵族 (zh) (guìzú)

• Czech: šlechtic (cs) m, šlechtična (cs) f
• Danish: aristokrat c
• Dutch: aristocraat (nl) m
• Esperanto: aristokrato
• Finnish: aristokraatti (fi), ylimys (fi)
• French: aristocrate (fr) m or f
• Galician: aristócrata m or f
• Georgian: არისტოკრატი (arisṭoḳraṭi), დიდებული (ka) (didebuli), თავადი (tavadi), წარჩინებული (c̣arčinebuli)
• German: Aristokrat (de) m, Aristokratin (de) f
• Greek: ευγενής (el) c (evgenís)
• Hindi: रईस (hi) m (raīs)
• Hungarian: arisztokrata (hu)
• Ido: aristokrato (io)
• Italian: aristocratico (it) m, aristocratica (it) f
• Japanese: 貴族 (ja) (きぞく, kizoku), アリストクラット (arisutokuratto)
• Korean: 귀족 (ko) (gwijok)
• Latin: optimās (la) m
• Macedonian: аристокра́т m (aristokrát), аристокра́тка f (aristokrátka), велможа m (velmoža)
• Malay: bangsawan (ms), aristokrat
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: aristokrat (no) m

  Nynorsk: aristokrat m

• Polish: arystokrata (pl) m, arystokratka (pl) f, szlachcic (pl) m, szlachcianka (pl) f
• Portuguese: aristocrata (pt) m or f
• Russian: аристокра́т (ru) m (aristokrát), аристокра́тка (ru) f (aristokrátka)
• Serbo-Croatian: aristòkrat (sh) m, aristòkratkinja (sh) f
• Slovak: šľachtic (sk) m, šľachtičná f
• Spanish: aristócrata (es) m
• Swedish: aristokrat (sv) c
• Tibetan: སྐུ་དྲག (sku drag), སྒེར་པ (sger pa)
• Ukrainian: аристокра́т (uk) m (arystokrát), аристокра́тка (uk) f (arystokrátka)
• Urdu: اشراف (ashraf)
• Welsh: gŵr bruh m

Anagrams

• traciators

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French aristocrate.

Noun

aristocrat m (plural aristocrați)

1. aristocrat

Declension

Declension of aristocrat

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) aristocrat	aristocratul	(niște) aristocrați	aristocrații
genitive/dative	(unui) aristocrat	aristocratului	(unor) aristocrați	aristocraților
vocative	aristocratule		aristocraților