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单词 aristocratic
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Definition of aristocratic in English:

aristocratic

adjective ˌarɪstəˈkratɪkəˌrɪstəˈkrædɪk
  • Of, belonging to, or typical of the aristocracy.

    an aristocratic family
    a stately, aristocratic manner
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Many of the subjects are necessarily members of wealthy or aristocratic families, and part of the purpose of the show is to explore the place of children in society their dress, and their toys.
    • In a flashback, we see the progress of their relationship - he, a gifted violinist; she, a pianist from an aristocratic family.
    • The state ostensibly dominated the society, but it was in fact the landed aristocratic families that kept the state at bay and perpetuated local power for centuries.
    • Mercer surely had his first wife's upper-class eastern European background in mind when he tackled the theme of the Nazi impact on old aristocratic German families.
    • The prestige and the social standing of the government clerks surpassed by far those of any other class of the population with the exception of the army officers and the members of the oldest and wealthiest aristocratic families.
    • They also received male visitors to their family palaces, and furthered familial alliances through an exchange of visits with female members of other aristocratic families.
    • Sinclair was born in 1878 to a family with Southern aristocratic ties.
    • Much of this had been granted in the form of hereditary manorial estates to aristocratic families or important monasteries.
    • Initially, its goal was to represent the interests of middle-class folks who resented the aristocratic inclinations of the Federalists.
    • A member of an aristocratic family, he was privately educated; between the wars he studied in Switzerland and Vienna.
    • Calvinism and the Roman Catholic Church; some of the leading Calvinist were also members of senior aristocratic families.
    • Under Othman, the third Caliph who belonged to the aristocratic Ummayid branch of Mohammed's tribe Quraysh, the conquests ceased briefly.
    • If the only choice in practice was between aristocratic oligarchy and democracy, then he favoured democracy.
    • In 1940 she married S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, the scion of an equally aristocratic Christian family in the low country.
    • As elsewhere in Europe, great bishops or abbots often belonged to royal or aristocratic families.
    • He was defending the mixed system that existed in the Britain of his day - a combination of aristocratic, commercial, oligarchic, and democratic elements.
    • Excavations revealed single cremated burials in each, perhaps the members of a local, wealthy aristocratic Roman family.
    • Wollstonecraft spent part of her short life as a teacher and then as a governess to the daughters of an aristocratic family, whose sons, as was usual for boys, went to boarding school.
    • This is a legacy from the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, when social position was determined by aristocratic or civil service hierarchy.
    Synonyms
    noble, titled, upper-class, blue-blooded, high-born, well born, patrician, elite
    grand, distinguished, respectable
    born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, silver-spoon
    informal posh, upper crust, upmarket, top drawer
    archaic gentle, of gentle birth
    well bred, dignified, courtly
    refined, polished, elegant, stylish
    decorous, gracious, fine, polite, well mannered, civil, courteous, chivalrous, gallant, gentlemanly, ladylike, urbane, suave, debonair
    haughty, proud
    informal snobbish

Derivatives

  • aristocratically

  • adverbarɪstəˈkratɪk(ə)liəˌrɪstəˈkrædək(ə)li
    • Toward the end of the century, the classics became better taught, and the expectation that the aristocratically wealthy should learn Greek and Latin while young probably became stronger than it had been since the 1690s.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Comtesse de la Fayette twitched nervously, her pointed nose turned aristocratically upward, her displeasure evident in her glance.
      • Finally, he stopped in a hallway decorated only by a dark portrait of some old lady sneering aristocratically down her nose at me.
      • The theme in the title is gradually worked out as Margaret - at first aristocratically repelled by ‘trade’ and its practitioners - comes to know and respect the ideas and the family life of both mill-hands and mill-owners.
      • She smiled at me gently and a little aristocratically, as if she was proud to be what she was.

Origin

Early 17th century: from French aristocratique, from Greek aristokratikos, from aristokratia (see aristocracy).

Rhymes

achromatic, acrobatic, Adriatic, aerobatic, anagrammatic, aquatic, aromatic, asthmatic, athematic, attic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, bureaucratic, charismatic, chromatic, cinematic, climatic, dalmatic, democratic, diagrammatic, diaphragmatic, diplomatic, dogmatic, dramatic, ecstatic, emblematic, emphatic, enigmatic, epigrammatic, erratic, fanatic, hepatic, hieratic, hydrostatic, hypostatic, idiomatic, idiosyncratic, isochromatic, lymphatic, melodramatic, meritocratic, miasmatic, monochromatic, monocratic, monogrammatic, numismatic, operatic, panchromatic, pancreatic, paradigmatic, phlegmatic, photostatic, piratic, plutocratic, pneumatic, polychromatic, pragmatic, prelatic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, psychosomatic, quadratic, rheumatic, schematic, schismatic, sciatic, semi-automatic, Socratic, somatic, static, stigmatic, sub-aquatic, sylvatic, symptomatic, systematic, technocratic, thematic, theocratic, thermostatic, traumatic
 
 

Definition of aristocratic in US English:

aristocratic

adjectiveəˌristəˈkradikəˌrɪstəˈkrædɪk
  • Of, belonging to, or typical of the aristocracy.

    an aristocratic family
    a stately, aristocratic manner
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The prestige and the social standing of the government clerks surpassed by far those of any other class of the population with the exception of the army officers and the members of the oldest and wealthiest aristocratic families.
    • He was defending the mixed system that existed in the Britain of his day - a combination of aristocratic, commercial, oligarchic, and democratic elements.
    • In 1940 she married S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, the scion of an equally aristocratic Christian family in the low country.
    • The state ostensibly dominated the society, but it was in fact the landed aristocratic families that kept the state at bay and perpetuated local power for centuries.
    • As elsewhere in Europe, great bishops or abbots often belonged to royal or aristocratic families.
    • Much of this had been granted in the form of hereditary manorial estates to aristocratic families or important monasteries.
    • If the only choice in practice was between aristocratic oligarchy and democracy, then he favoured democracy.
    • Sinclair was born in 1878 to a family with Southern aristocratic ties.
    • Calvinism and the Roman Catholic Church; some of the leading Calvinist were also members of senior aristocratic families.
    • Mercer surely had his first wife's upper-class eastern European background in mind when he tackled the theme of the Nazi impact on old aristocratic German families.
    • They also received male visitors to their family palaces, and furthered familial alliances through an exchange of visits with female members of other aristocratic families.
    • Excavations revealed single cremated burials in each, perhaps the members of a local, wealthy aristocratic Roman family.
    • Initially, its goal was to represent the interests of middle-class folks who resented the aristocratic inclinations of the Federalists.
    • Under Othman, the third Caliph who belonged to the aristocratic Ummayid branch of Mohammed's tribe Quraysh, the conquests ceased briefly.
    • Many of the subjects are necessarily members of wealthy or aristocratic families, and part of the purpose of the show is to explore the place of children in society their dress, and their toys.
    • A member of an aristocratic family, he was privately educated; between the wars he studied in Switzerland and Vienna.
    • Wollstonecraft spent part of her short life as a teacher and then as a governess to the daughters of an aristocratic family, whose sons, as was usual for boys, went to boarding school.
    • This is a legacy from the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, when social position was determined by aristocratic or civil service hierarchy.
    • In a flashback, we see the progress of their relationship - he, a gifted violinist; she, a pianist from an aristocratic family.
    Synonyms
    noble, titled, upper-class, blue-blooded, high-born, well born, patrician, elite
    well bred, dignified, courtly

Origin

Early 17th century: from French aristocratique, from Greek aristokratikos, from aristokratia (see aristocracy).

 
 
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