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单词 aristocrat
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aristocrat
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An aristocrat is someone from the ruling class, usually those with nobility, money, or both. Although not an aristocrat yourself, you may have the odd viscount on your family tree if you go back far enough.
The word aristocrat comes from the Greek word aristokratia, which itself comes from the root words aristos, meaning "best," and kratos, meaning "rule." So, the aristocracy was the ruling class of (supposedly) the best and noblest people, and an aristocrat was a member of that class. Today the word can also be applied to anyone with superior standing: Count Basie was an aristocrat in the jazz world.
WORD FAMILY
aristocrat: aristocracy, aristocratical, aristocrats+/aristocracy: aristocracies, aristocratic/aristocratic: aristocratically
USAGE EXAMPLES
Five aristocrats, led by Prince Yusupov, were involved, though some speculate that even more participated in the plot.
BBC(Dec 30, 2016)
As well as being a former aristocrat, Rostov is also a poet.
Los Angeles Times(Dec 21, 2016)
As she shimmered her way through Hollywood society, she maintained the air of a Hungarian aristocrat.
BBC(Dec 18, 2016)
n a member of the aristocracy
Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper
blue blood, patrician
Dido
(Roman mythology) a princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage; Virgil tells of her suicide when she was abandoned by Aeneas
Sleeping Beauty
fairy story: princess under an evil spell who could be awakened only by a prince's kiss
Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel
prince consort of Queen Victoria of England (1819-1861)
Anne
Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over parliament (1665-1714)
Anne Boleyn
the second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I; was executed on a charge of adultery (1507-1536)
Duchess of Ferrara
Italian noblewoman and patron of the arts (1480-1519)
Catherine de Medicis
queen of France as the wife of Henry II and regent during the minority of her son Charles IX (1519-1589)
Prince Charles
the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948)
Cleopatra
beautiful and charismatic queen of Egypt; mistress of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony; killed herself to avoid capture by Octavian (69-30 BC)
First Marquess Cornwallis
commander of the British forces in the American War of Independence; was defeated by American and French troops at Yorktown (1738-1805)
Cyrus the Younger
Persian prince who was defeated in battle by his brother Artaxerxes II (424-401 BC)
Lady Diana Frances Spencer
English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles; her death in an automobile accident in Paris produced intense national mourning (1961-1997)
Duchesse de Valentinois
French noblewoman who was the mistress of Henry II; she had more influence over him than did his wife Catherine de Medicis (1499-1566)
Don Juan
a legendary Spanish nobleman and philanderer who became the hero of many poems and plays and operas
Black Prince
son of Edward III who defeated the French at Crecy and Poitiers in the Hundred Years' War (1330-1376)
Edward Antony Richard Louis
third son of Elizabeth II (born in 1964)
Eleanor of Aquitaine
queen of France as the wife of Louis VII; that marriage was annulled in 1152 and she then married Henry II and became Queen of England (1122-1204)
Elizabeth I
Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she succeeded Mary I (who was a Catholic) and restored Protestantism to England; during her reign Mary Queen of Scots was executed and the Spanish Armada was defeated; her reign was marked by prosperity and literary genius (1533-1603)
Elizabeth II
daughter of George VI who became the Queen of England and Northern Ireland in 1952 on the death of her father (1926-)
Esther
(Old Testament) a beautiful Jewess chosen by the king of Persia to be his queen; she stopped a plot to massacre all the Jews in Persia (an event celebrated by Jews as the feast of Purim)
Francis Ferdinand
archduke of Austria and heir apparent to Francis Joseph I; his assassination at Sarajevo triggered the outbreak of World War I (1863-1914)
Frederick William
the Elector of Brandenburg who rebuilt his domain after its destruction during the Thirty Years' War (1620-1688)
Sir Geraint
(Arthurian legend) one of the knights of the Round Table
Lady Godiva
according to legend she rode naked through Coventry in order to persuade her husband not to tax the townspeople so heavily; the only person to look at her as she rode by was a man named Tom and Peeping Tom has become a synonym for voyeur (circa 1040-1080)
Lady Jane Grey
Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)
Lady Emma Hamilton
English beauty who was the mistress of Admiral Nelson (1765-1815)
Catherine Howard
Queen of England as the fifth wife of Henry VIII who was accused of adultery and executed (1520-1542)
Isabella the Catholic
the queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and sponsored the voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1451-1504)
Ivan III Vasilievich
grand duke of Muscovy whose victories against the Tartars laid the basis for Russian unity (1440-1505)
Jezebel
wife of Ahab who was king of Israel; according to the Old Testament she was a cruel immoral queen who fostered the worship of Baal and tried to kill Elijah and other prophets of Israel (9th century BC)
Lydia Kamekeha Paki Liliuokalani
queen of the Hawaiian islands (1838-1917)
Marquise de Maintenon
French consort of Louis XIV who secretly married the king after the death of his first wife (1635-1719)
Marie Antoinette
queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular; her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy; she was guillotined along with her husband (1755-1793)
Bloody Mary
daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558; she was the wife of Philip II of Spain and when she restored Roman Catholicism to England many Protestants were burned at the stake as heretics (1516-1558)
Mary II
Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; she was the eldest daughter of James II and ruled jointly with her husband William III (1662-1694)
Mary Queen of Scots
queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567; as a Catholic she was forced to abdicate in favor of her son and fled to England where she was imprisoned by Elizabeth I; when Catholic supporters plotted to put her on the English throne she was tried and executed for sedition (1542-1587)
Francoise-Athenais de Rochechouart
French noblewoman who was mistress to Louis XIV until he became attracted to Madame de Maintenon (1641-1707)
Roger de Mortimer
English nobleman who deposed Edward II and was executed by Edward III (1287-1330)
Nefertiti
queen of Egypt and wife of Akhenaton (14th century BC)
Catherine Parr
Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548)
Duke of Edinburgh
Englishman and husband of Elizabeth II (born 1921)
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson
French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose policies she influenced (1721-1764)
Prince Rupert
English leader (born in Germany) of the Royalist forces during the English Civil War (1619-1682)
Jane Seymour
Queen of England as the third wife of Henry VIII and mother of Edward VI (1509-1537)
Queen Victoria
queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901)
Nancy Witcher Astor
British politician (born in the United States) who was the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons (1879-1964)
Duke of Lancaster
the fourth son of Edward III who was the effective ruler of England during the close of his father's reign and during the minority of Richard II; his son was Henry Bolingbroke (1340-1399)
Earl of Leicester
an English nobleman who led the baronial rebellion against Henry III (1208-1265)
Bart, baronet
a member of the British order of honor; ranks below a baron but above a knight
brahman, brahmin
a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family)
female aristocrat
a woman who is an aristocrat
Highness
(Your Highness or His Highness or Her Highness) title used to address a royal person
male aristocrat
a man who is an aristocrat
prince
a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign)
princess
a female member of a royal family other than the queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign)
raja, rajah
a prince or king in India
ranee, rani
(the feminine of raja) a Hindu princess or the wife of a raja
archduchess
a wife or widow of an archduke or a princess of the former ruling house of Austria
archduke
a sovereign prince of the former ruling house of Austria
cavalier, chevalier
a gallant or courtly gentleman
crown prince
a male heir apparent to a throne
crown princess
a female heir apparent to a throne
czarina, czaritza, tsarina, tsaritsa, tzarina
the wife or widow of a czar
dauphin
formerly, the eldest son of the King of France and direct heir to the throne
grand duke
a prince who rules a territory
knight
originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit
Lady, noblewoman, peeress
a woman of the peerage in Britain
Lord, noble, nobleman
a titled peer of the realm
maharaja, maharajah
a great raja; a Hindu prince or king in India ranking above a raja
maharanee, maharani
a great rani; a princess in India or the wife of a maharaja
Elector
any of the German princes who were entitled to vote in the election of new emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
prince consort
a prince who is the husband of a reigning female sovereign
princeling
a young prince
princeling
a petty or insignificant prince who rules some unimportant principality
Prince of Wales
the male heir apparent of the British sovereign
princess royal
the eldest daughter of a British sovereign
female monarch, queen, queen regnant
a female sovereign ruler
queen
the wife or widow of a king
Sir
a title used before the name of knight or baronet
leader
a person who rules or guides or inspires others
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