The most powerful members of a society.
People of high social class, in particular of the land-owning social class.
Синонимы
Examples for "aristocracy "
Examples for "aristocracy "
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.
1 The gentry dressed in one fashion; the working classes dressed in another.
2 In particular, almost every faithful gentry family had been transplanted into Connacht.
3 The gentry had also profited by commerce and possessions in the colonies.
4 The squatting class in Australia correspond to the landed gentry of England.
5 It was played by particular request of one of the pepper-and-salt gentry .
6 As was the custom among the English gentry , it offered long leases.
7 The seafaring gentry the round ocean around called it the Adamless Eden.
8 You know that; and between the two we may certainly claim gentry .
9 Wilem was right: at the Eolian, I was one of the gentry .
10 He makes nets in our village and sells them to the gentry .
11 Plunder was more in the line of these gentry than honest fighting.
12 The gentry think a powerful lot of looks in choosing a wife.
13 The cabs and other carriages for the gentry had gone long before.
14 The Protestant party has hitherto been guided and led by the gentry .
15 The gentry did all they could to facilitate the object of Pett.
16 Among the gentry of the province Nicholas was respected but not liked.
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Gentry в диалектах
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