aristocratic

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Franz Joseph Haydn thought of himself as a slave at the castle of the aristocratic Esterházy family; he served as their court composer for decades while he wrote his famous works.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Severus’ family was wealthy and aristocratic: They could afford to educate him expensively and expected him to pursue a career in public life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

The afterglow of aristocratic grace, the poet noted, was obscured by the “rising tide of democracy, which invades and levels all things.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

Born in 1942 to an aristocratic British family in Dorset, England, Douglas-Hamilton studied biology and zoology in Scotland and Oxford before moving to Tanzania to research elephant social behaviour.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

Big Numbers, Small Probabilities People’s facility with numbers ranges from the aristocratic to the Ramanujanian, but it’s an unfortunate fact that most are on the aristocrats’ side of our old Mainer.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos