| 单词 | great world |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreat world great world n. [after French le grand monde (1680)] aristocratic society; high society. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] optimacy1579 aristocracy1651 great world1699 peerage1725 well-connected1788 governing class1795 patriciate1795 well-connected1831 caste1842 (the) salt of the earth1842 the leisured class(es1848 japonicadom1851 countyocracy1859 masterclass1861 proprietariat1872 four hundred1888 the Establishment1923 gratin1934 power élite1942 U1954 upper1955 topside1958 1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. at World To live among the great World, vivre parmi le grand monde, frequenter le grand monde. 1713 Guardian 29 Aug. 235 I know not what Delight splendid Nuptials may afford to the generality of the Great World. 1778 F. Burney Evelina I. xxiv. 201 During her residence in the great world. 1851 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1894) I. 272 Thackeray says he is getting tired of being witty, and of the great world. 1946 Life 16 Dec. 78/2 High life meant high living: the gouty great world ate (with their knives) only a little less than they drank. 1996 E. Dunning & S. Mennel tr. N. Elias Germans ii. 126 Both political and civilized behaviour represented the grand monde, the ‘great world’, where people, so it appeared to those living in the ‘smaller middle-class world’, were full of conceit and pretence. < as lemmas |
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