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15 words match “ARISTOCRAT”

ARISTOCRAT n. 3 definitions
One who is overbearing in his temper or habits; a proud or haughty person. A born aristocrat, bred radical. Mrs. Browning.
ARISTOCRATIC; ARISTOCRATICAL a. 2 definitions
aristocracy; consisting in, or favoring, a government of nobles, or principal men; as, an aristocratic constitution.
ARISTOCRATISM n. 2 definitions
The principles of aristocrats. Romilly.
BELGRAVIAN a.
g to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic.
BOYAR; BOYARD n.
A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.
DEMOCRAT n.
advocate of democracy, or government by the people. Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat. Tennyson.
DEMOCRATIC a.
Befitting the common people; -- opposed to aristocratic. The Democratic party, the name of one of the chief political parties in the United States.
JUNKER n.
A young German noble or squire; esp., a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia.
JUNKERISM n.
The principles of the aristocratic party in Prussia.
LIBERAL a.
nt; having tendency toward democratic or republican, as distinguished from monarchical or aristocratic, forms; as, liberal thinkers; liberal Christians; the Liberal party. I confess I see nothing liberal in this " order of thoughts," as Hobbes elsewhere expresses it. Hazlitt.
NERVOUS a.
Sensitive; excitable; timid. Our aristocratic class does not firmly protest against the unfair treatment of Irish Catholics, because it is nervous about the land. M. Arnold. Nervous fever (Med.), a low form of fever characterized by great disturbance of the nervous system, as evinced by delirium, or stupor, disordered…
NOBBY a.
Stylish; modish; elegant; showy; aristocratic; fashionable. [Slang]
NOBILITY n.
Those who are noble; the collictive body of nobles or titled persons in a stste; the aristocratic and patrician class; the peerage; as, the English nobility.
OPTIMATE a.
A nobleman or aristocrat; a chief man in a state or city. [R.] Chapman.
SILK-STOCKING a.
Wearing silk stockings (which among men were formerly worn chiefly by the luxurious or aristocratic); hence, elegantly dressed; aristocratic; luxurious; -- chiefly applied to men, often by way of reproach.