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aristarchy

aristarchy noun: government by the best people.

Noun

aristarchy (countable and uncountable, plural aristarchies)

  1. Government by the best people.
    • All good and wholesome laws, virtue and truth above all things, and aristarchy, live forever. But woe to tyrants, mobs, aristocracy, anarchy, and toryism […]1838, B. H. Roberts, quoting Joseph Smith, A comprehensive history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, volume 2, published 1930, page 428
  2. A body of such rulers.
    • [A Presbyterian session] is […] a court of monarchs, or aristarchs, who hold their office for life; a limited monarchy […] or, more strictly, an aristarchy of rulers appointed for life, and ruling on the principle of elective aristarchy.1854, Leicester Ambrose Sawyer, Organic Christianity, Part IV, Division V, Chapter III, page 248

Forms of aristarchy

pluralaristarchies

Origin of aristarchy

From Ancient Greek ἄριστος (áristos, “best”) + -αρχία (-arkhía, “rule”).

Words formed from aristarchy

Questions about aristarchy

What does aristarchy mean?
Aristarchy means government by the best people.
What part of speech is aristarchy?
Aristarchy is a noun.
What is the plural of aristarchy?
The plural of aristarchy is aristarchies.

Words near aristarchy in the dictionary

  1. Aristarchian
  2. aristarchic
  3. aristarchies
  4. Aristarchs
  5. Aristarchus
  6. aristarchy
  7. aristas
  8. Aristasian
  9. aristate
  10. aristated
  11. aristately

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