aristocrats

Noun

aristocrat (plural aristocrats)

1. 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.2023 March 13, Lianne Kolirin, “Skeletal remains of Roman aristocrat discovered in hidden lead coffin”, in CNN, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2024
2. 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.
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     Plato was, as has so often been observed, temperamentally an aristocrat. And he believed that the qualities...1974: Plato (author) and Desmond Lee (translator), The Republic (2nd edition, revised; Penguin Classics; →ISBN), Translator’s Introduction, pages 51 and 53
3. A cipher in which the original punctuation and spacing are retained.