单词 | aristocrat |
释义 | aristocratn. a. A member of an aristocracy; strictly, one of a ruling oligarchy; hence, one of a patrician order, a noble; occasionally, one who favours an aristocratic form of government (opposed to democrat). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > member of optimate1574 gentle blood1575 patrician1631 grandlinga1637 (man, woman) of fashion1702 Brahmani1704 ruffled shirt1754 aristocrat1789 thoroughbred1817 Brahmin1823 big bug1826 ruffle shirt1830 ruffle-shirter1842 blue blood1850 aristo1864 upper1955 society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > ruling class or group > [noun] > of the upper classes > member of aristocrat1789 aristo1864 1789 W. Belsham Ess. II. xl. 473 The genuine spirit of the haughty aristocrate. 1789 A. Young Jrnl. 7 Nov. in Trav. France (1792) i. 225 Their excellencies, the aristocrats of Venice. 1790 W. Taylor Let. from Paris in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 69 All Paris is still in a ferment..These handbills and pamphlets..all tend to accuse the aristocrats of little or great treasons. 1793 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 151 The royalists of France, or as they are (perhaps as properly) called, the aristocrats. 1794 Coleridge in Own Times III. 968 In came that fierce Aristocrat, Our pursy woollen-draper. 1840 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) V. 408 The aristocrat-made law. 1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece VI. ii. xlvii. 26 So violent and pointed did the scission of aristocrats and democrats become. b. figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > pre-eminence > [noun] > chief of its or his kind sunOE lordOE princec1225 primatec1384 princessc1390 giant1535 queen1554 first gentleman1584 Prester John1598 arch1605 gigant1610 principate1651 top-stone1659 first lady1677 Shakespeare1821 king1829 prius1882 aristocrat1883 Sun King1971 1883 G. Allen in Knowledge 3 Aug. 65/2 The honey-loving aristocrats of the insect world. c. attributive quasi-adj. ΚΠ 1873 A. Trollope Austral. & N.Z. I. 475 The class of which I am now speaking is an aristocrat class. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1789 |
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