an aristocratic familyaristocraticar‧is‧to‧crat‧ic /ˌærəstəˈkrætɪk◂, əˌrɪs- $ əˌrɪs-/ adjective 
an aristocratic family
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- He spoke with an aristocratic accent.
- Pamela came from an aristocratic background.
- BDe Mori is a handsome man with light blue eyes and a high, aristocratic forehead.
- He was a dour Yankee, tall, confident, elegant, with a dry wit and aristocratic tastes.
- I could hardly go to the home of this aristocratic young woman with stubble on my face.
- Lachrymose comedy represented an attitude opposed to the aristocratic one.
- The Oscar Wilde trials of 1895 condensed representations both of aristocratic debauchery and the corrupting effects of foreign morals.
- When their eyes meet she envisions the fulfillment of her dream of marrying a man with aristocratic connections not from Middlemarch.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY an aristocratic familyCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
belonging to or typical of the aristocracy SYN noble: an aristocratic family· Of aristocratic family, Gallienus was highly educated, and his portrait exudes cultured refinement.· The merchants soon managed to place their sons and daughters in aristocratic families, infiltrating them by marriage and adoption.· Mrs Goreng came from an aristocratic family.· His aristocratic family was so against his religious pursuits they locked him away for fifteen months.· Six hundred men, some from the most distinguished aristocratic families, went on trial for the quixotic rising of December 1825.· Gilbert was the scion of an ancient aristocratic family that had fallen somewhat into disrepute.· The de Filipis were a very old, very aristocratic family.
· It reflected essential drives within aristocratic society towards establishing political jurisdictions in local terms.· He was a social satirist who portrayed the vices and follies of the aristocratic society of the London of his time.· Such relationships took their shape and meaning from the distribution of power, wealth and status in aristocratic society.
an aristocratic family