Form of government in which power is in the hands of a small, privileged, ruling class.
A privileged class holding hereditary titles.
The most powerful members of a society.
1 The south long remained oligarchic; in the north aristocracy slowly melted away.
2 The interests of the aristocracy outweighed the political considerations in our favour.
3 These are the Mandarins, and there is no other aristocracy in China.
4 He suddenly saw the aristocracy of the people who did not labor.
5 He has to maintain the prestige of the highest aristocracy in Europe.
6 The common people, in short, were just the same as the aristocracy .
7 The English aristocracy and the celebrities of London came to the inauguration.
8 The whole country seems banded together against the aristocracy and the landowners.
9 The consulship of Caesar was the last chance for the Roman aristocracy .
10 And you know Aunt Estelle belonged to the old aristocracy in France.
11 At 21, Jordan Spieth now deserves his place among the game's aristocracy .
12 The latter returned with the announcement that the aristocracy demanded unconditional surrender.
13 Leopold and most of the aristocracy fled, in despair of its defence.
14 There was a speculative tinge in the operations of this landed aristocracy .
15 There is also in the many Limbo Lanes an aristocracy of crime.
16 She wondered if true aristocracy meant having the gene for guilt removed.
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