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One of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in Revolutionary France).
- The remains of a Roman aristocrat have been unearthed by archaeologists in northern England.
- Magazines kept aristocrats on the payroll to facilitate access to jet-set playgrounds like Corfu and Mustique.
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A proponent of aristocracy; an advocate of aristocratic government.
- Professor Fite, in The Platonic Legend, deprecates earlier idealization, and finds Plato to be an aristocrat, something of a snob, and the advocate of a restrictively organized society. […] Plato was, as has so often been observed, temperam
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A cipher in which the original punctuation and spacing are retained.
ant. commoner · plebeian