aristocracy

[Ar`is*toc·ra*cy]

A person who's "born to rule" belongs to the ruling class, or aristocracy, and is "noble" just by being in the family line whether they have done anything noble or not. In an aristocracy, a princess who doesn’t visit sick children or clear land mines is still a princess.

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Government by the best citizens.

Noun
the most powerful members of a society

Noun
a privileged class holding hereditary titles

n.
Government by the best citizens.

n.
A ruling body composed of the best citizens.

n.
A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy.

n.
The nobles or chief persons in a state; a privileged class or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in rank, fortune, or intellect.

Aristocracy

Ar`is*toc"ra*cy , n.; pl. Aristocracies . [Gr. ; best + to be strong, to rule, strength; is perh. from the same root as E. arm, and orig. meant fitting: cf. F. aristocratie. See Arm, and Create, which is related to Gr. .] 1. Government by the best citizens. 2. A ruling body composed of the best citizens. [Obs.]

In the Senate Right not our quest in this, I will protest them To all the world, no aristocracy.

3. A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy.

The aristocracy of Venice hath admitted so many abuses, trough the degeneracy of the nobles, that the period of its duration seems approach.

4. The nobles or chief persons in a state; a privileged class or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in rank, fortune, or intellect.

Government by the best citizens.

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Usage Examples

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

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Other Usage Examples

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.