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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | upper-class |
| Synonyms: | aristocratic, blue-blooded, gentle, grand, high-class, highborn, noble, royal, wellborn |
| Antonyms: | common, lower-class |
| Main Entry: | aristocracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | privileged class, government |
| Synonyms: | elite, gentility, gentry, haut monde, high society, nobility, noblesse, patricians, patriciate, peerage, society, upper class, upper crust |
| Antonyms: | commoners, plebites, proletariat |
| Main Entry: | aristocrat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | privileged person |
| Synonyms: | blueblood, gentleperson, lace curtain, noble, patrician, peer, silk stocking, swell*, upper cruster |
| Antonyms: | commoner, plebian, proletariat |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Example Sentences
- Known since antiquity as the patrician malady and a disease of kings, gout.
- Bush came from a patrician background and had good social skills.
- Adult male gorillas, called silverbacks, play the role of stern patrician.
| Main Entry: | aristocratic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | privileged, elegant |
| Synonyms: | aloof, blue-blooded, courtly, dignified, elegant, elite, fine, haughty, noble, patrician, polished, refined, snobbish, stylish, upper-class, well-born, well-bred |
| Antonyms: | low-born, low-life, poor, unprivileged, vulgar, wanting |
| Main Entry: | nobility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aristocracy; eminence |
| Synonyms: | dignity, elevation, elite, ennoblement, exaltation, excellence, generosity, gentry, glorification, grandeur, greatness, high society, honor, illustriousness, incorruptibility, integrity, loftiness, magnanimity, magnificence, majesty, nobleness, patricians, peerage, royalty, ruling class, society, stateliness, sublimity, superiority, upper class, uprightness, virtue, worthiness |
| Main Entry: | noble |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aristocratic |
| Synonyms: | gentle, highborn, imperial, kingly, patrician, queenly, titled, wellborn |
| Antonyms: | ignoble, lowly, servile, unaristocratic, unsophisticated |
| Main Entry: | noble |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | member of royal or important family |
| Synonyms: | archduchess, archduke, aristocrat, blue blood, count, countess, duchess, duke, emperor, empress, gentleman, gentlewoman, lady, lord, patrician, peer, prince, princess, royalty, silk stocking |
| Main Entry: | socialite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aristocrat |
| Synonyms: | Brahmin, blueblood, deb, debutante, gentleperson, lace curtain, member of the upper class, noble, patrician, silk stocking, upper cruster |
| Main Entry: | well-bred |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mannerly |
| Synonyms: | aristocratic, blue-blooded, civil, considerate, courteous, courtly, cultivated, cultured, gallant, genteel, gentle, noble, patrician, polished, polite, refined, taught, trained, upper-crust, urbane, well-behaved, well-mannered |
| Antonyms: | ignoble, unmannered, unrefined, unsophisticated |
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