Definition of aristocracy in English:

aristocracy

nounPlural aristocracies ˌarɪˈstɒkrəsiˌɛrəˈstɑkrəsi

usually the aristocracy

1treated as singular or plural The highest class in certain societies, typically comprising people of noble birth holding hereditary titles and offices.
贵族（阶级）
members of the aristocracy
贵族阶级成员。
Example sentencesExamples
- From its inception, it was meant to ward off the emergence of a hereditary aristocracy in the United States.
- Towering over the viewer, it is an imposing icon, with a size and status which at the time would have been customary for portraits of the aristocracy or gentry.
- The Ottoman system had no hereditary aristocracy, and its rulers worked hard to make sure that one did not arise.
- John Woodcock watched as final farewells were said to a respected member of the aristocracy.
- The titian-haired lady of the finely-chiselled features detects the Scottish accent and confides that husband number one had been a Scot, a member of the aristocracy.
- In large towns, it tended to act as a collaborating class, offering the aristocracy and the upper middle class the means of power in exchange for recognition and status.
- This makes William Wallace less of an historical oddity for not being a member of the aristocracy when he staged his famous rebellion.
- Although he is descended from Russian aristocracy, he was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
- Classes are obvious - there were the aristocracy, the middle class or bourgeois, and of course the peasantry or rustic class.
- From its founder, the landed Lady Eve Balfour, onwards, the organisation has often found its supporters among the upper-middle classes and landed aristocracy.
- Oddly enough, the benefits he conferred upon the common people had the result of weakening the aristocracy, the social class from which he came.
- Highly prized de luxe models continued to be commissioned by the aristocracy and members of the bourgeoisie.
- Until the twentieth century, the primary patrons of churches and monasteries were the aristocracy, the only group in society who possessed the means to sponsor such projects.
- In a society organized according to hierarchical caste, land was controlled by the aristocracy, and the lower classes rented, borrowed, or worked the land according to a sharecropping system.
- A great many collectors from the upper aristocracy or rich middle classes called on her skill.
- This step was taken much earlier in London, where the Philharmonic Society was founded by an élite of the aristocracy, gentry, City, and professions in 1813.
- They seem to contain many popular beliefs and customs, perhaps as practiced by the non-Aryan locals, and were later accepted by the aristocracy and the priestly class.
- Some openly praised the virtues of aristocracy, though they made clear that they opposed hereditary aristocracy.
- By the time Messrs Landale and Morgan took to the field, duelling had ceased to be the preserve of the aristocracy and had been taken up by members of the middle classes.
- Tolstoy foresaw the end of the aristocracy in Russian society.
- Scott's casual attitude to debt was certainly closer to that of the aristocracy than the middle class.
Synonyms
the nobility, the peerage, the gentry, the upper class, the ruling class, the privileged class, the elite, high society, the establishment, the patriciate, the haut monde, the beau monde
aristocrats, lords, ladies, peers, peers of the realm, nobles, noblemen, noblewomen, titled men/women/people, patricians
informal the upper crust, the jet set, the beautiful people, the crème de la crème, the top drawer, aristos
British informal nobs, toffs
1. 1.1 A form of government in which power is held by the nobility.
  贵族统治
  Example sentencesExamples
  Aristotle pointed out in his book of lectures The Politics and in his studies of constitutions that aristocracy as an ideal too often degenerated into either oligarchy, the rule of the powerful, or plutocracy, the rule of the rich.
  The two could no longer coexist and it was therefore a class struggle between the Southern slaveholding aristocracy and the Northern capitalist democracy.
  Nor, despite their republicanism, did they seek the destruction of aristocracy.
  Both argued that irrespective of the form of government, be it monarchy, aristocracy, or democracy, a relatively compact minority always ruled.
  Aristotle produced a complex taxonomy of constitutions, the three main types of which are monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy.
2. 1.2 A state in which governing power is held by the nobility.
  贵族统治
  Example sentencesExamples
  Early British occupation was disruptive: aristocracies lost power and influence to the new rulers, the conditions under which land was held could be changed, and taxation was more rigorously enforced.
  Central to this absorption into the Roman system was the more or less universal devolution of the burden of routine administration to the local aristocracies that replaced the client kingdoms.
  The story of papal elections is really the story of the college of cardinals, which functions like the unelected aristocracies of the ancien regime.
  French indeed unified the aristocracies from the Capetian realm of France to southern Scotland.
  This would continue for some time in Byzantium and in Scandinavia, in polities of strong public power or weak aristocracies.
  But while the castles became increasingly the centres of seigneurial lordships and the centres of the power they exercised, this meant that aristocracies were now abandoning the cities.
  In essence, the Glorious Revolution was a coup d'état undertaken by an adventurous foreign prince and his mercenary army, supported by local aristocracies, not an uprising of ‘the people’.
  Rather they reveal Tocqueville's fixation on the contrast between classes in aristocracies and democracies.
  The nineteenth century saw the emergence of Italy as a unified state and as a modern political system, moving from the ancien régime of monarchs and feudal aristocracies to an elected parliament and civil rights.
  The aristocracies of the many peoples of Italy enjoyed a common, quite uniform culture throughout this era, which served to distinguish them from their inferiors and expressed their right to membership of the elite.
  The aristocracies of Milan, Naples, and Sicily intrigued against their Spanish viceroys; in Sardinia a viceroy was murdered by dissident nobles.
3. 1.3 A group regarded as privileged or superior in a particular sphere.
  Britain's pop aristocracy
  a new aristocracy of talented young people
  Example sentencesExamples
  These groups were the intelligentsia, civil servants, the labour aristocracy, and successful petty producers.
  He dresses film stars, supermodels and the aristocracy of pop in clothes that are symbols of status and success.
  But the structure created is one again of an aristocracy of corporate executives, with the majority of ‘opportunity’ the ability to sell your labor.
  Corporate people are capitalism's new aristocracy.
  Much of the native Kentucky racing establishment resent the perceived dilution of racing's aristocracy.
  In more recent years the new aristocracies of the pop world have changed the city's landscape in their own glamorous ways.
  The marketing gurus have been the aristocracy of the sales-marketing community.
  The tremendous pressure placed on Louisville workers to cater to the horse aristocracy was not limited to industries in direct contact with race fans.

Origin

Late 15th century: from Old French aristocratie, from Greek aristokratia, from aristos 'best' + -kratia 'power'. The term originally denoted the government of a state by its best citizens, later by the rich and well born, hence the sense 'nobility', regardless of the form of government (mid 17th century).

The term originally meant the government of a state by its best citizens, later by the rich and well born, which led, in the mid 17th century, to the sense ‘nobility’, regardless of the form of government. The origin is Old French aristocratie, from Greek aristokratia, from aristos ‘best’ and -kratia ‘power’.

Rhymes

adhocracy, autocracy, bureaucracy, democracy, gerontocracy, gynaecocracy (US gynecocracy), hierocracy, hypocrisy, meritocracy, mobocracy, monocracy, plutocracy, technocracy, theocracy

Definition of aristocracy in US English:

aristocracy

nounˌɛrəˈstɑkrəsiˌerəˈstäkrəsē

or plural, usually the aristocracy

1treated as singular or plural The highest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices.
贵族（阶级）
the ancient Polish aristocracy had hereditary right to elect the king
Example sentencesExamples
- Highly prized de luxe models continued to be commissioned by the aristocracy and members of the bourgeoisie.
- Some openly praised the virtues of aristocracy, though they made clear that they opposed hereditary aristocracy.
- A great many collectors from the upper aristocracy or rich middle classes called on her skill.
- By the time Messrs Landale and Morgan took to the field, duelling had ceased to be the preserve of the aristocracy and had been taken up by members of the middle classes.
- From its founder, the landed Lady Eve Balfour, onwards, the organisation has often found its supporters among the upper-middle classes and landed aristocracy.
- In a society organized according to hierarchical caste, land was controlled by the aristocracy, and the lower classes rented, borrowed, or worked the land according to a sharecropping system.
- Although he is descended from Russian aristocracy, he was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
- Tolstoy foresaw the end of the aristocracy in Russian society.
- Classes are obvious - there were the aristocracy, the middle class or bourgeois, and of course the peasantry or rustic class.
- This makes William Wallace less of an historical oddity for not being a member of the aristocracy when he staged his famous rebellion.
- Scott's casual attitude to debt was certainly closer to that of the aristocracy than the middle class.
- The titian-haired lady of the finely-chiselled features detects the Scottish accent and confides that husband number one had been a Scot, a member of the aristocracy.
- The Ottoman system had no hereditary aristocracy, and its rulers worked hard to make sure that one did not arise.
- From its inception, it was meant to ward off the emergence of a hereditary aristocracy in the United States.
- Towering over the viewer, it is an imposing icon, with a size and status which at the time would have been customary for portraits of the aristocracy or gentry.
- In large towns, it tended to act as a collaborating class, offering the aristocracy and the upper middle class the means of power in exchange for recognition and status.
- They seem to contain many popular beliefs and customs, perhaps as practiced by the non-Aryan locals, and were later accepted by the aristocracy and the priestly class.
- This step was taken much earlier in London, where the Philharmonic Society was founded by an élite of the aristocracy, gentry, City, and professions in 1813.
- Until the twentieth century, the primary patrons of churches and monasteries were the aristocracy, the only group in society who possessed the means to sponsor such projects.
- John Woodcock watched as final farewells were said to a respected member of the aristocracy.
- Oddly enough, the benefits he conferred upon the common people had the result of weakening the aristocracy, the social class from which he came.
Synonyms
the nobility, the peerage, the gentry, the upper class, the ruling class, the privileged class, the elite, high society, the establishment, the patriciate, the haut monde, the beau monde
1. 1.1 A form of government in which power is held by the nobility.
  贵族统治
  Example sentencesExamples
  The two could no longer coexist and it was therefore a class struggle between the Southern slaveholding aristocracy and the Northern capitalist democracy.
  Aristotle pointed out in his book of lectures The Politics and in his studies of constitutions that aristocracy as an ideal too often degenerated into either oligarchy, the rule of the powerful, or plutocracy, the rule of the rich.
  Aristotle produced a complex taxonomy of constitutions, the three main types of which are monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy.
  Nor, despite their republicanism, did they seek the destruction of aristocracy.
  Both argued that irrespective of the form of government, be it monarchy, aristocracy, or democracy, a relatively compact minority always ruled.
2. 1.2 A state governed by the aristocracy.
  贵族统治的国家
  Example sentencesExamples
  The nineteenth century saw the emergence of Italy as a unified state and as a modern political system, moving from the ancien régime of monarchs and feudal aristocracies to an elected parliament and civil rights.
  Rather they reveal Tocqueville's fixation on the contrast between classes in aristocracies and democracies.
  In essence, the Glorious Revolution was a coup d'état undertaken by an adventurous foreign prince and his mercenary army, supported by local aristocracies, not an uprising of ‘the people’.
  French indeed unified the aristocracies from the Capetian realm of France to southern Scotland.
  Central to this absorption into the Roman system was the more or less universal devolution of the burden of routine administration to the local aristocracies that replaced the client kingdoms.
  This would continue for some time in Byzantium and in Scandinavia, in polities of strong public power or weak aristocracies.
  The story of papal elections is really the story of the college of cardinals, which functions like the unelected aristocracies of the ancien regime.
  The aristocracies of the many peoples of Italy enjoyed a common, quite uniform culture throughout this era, which served to distinguish them from their inferiors and expressed their right to membership of the elite.
  The aristocracies of Milan, Naples, and Sicily intrigued against their Spanish viceroys; in Sardinia a viceroy was murdered by dissident nobles.
  Early British occupation was disruptive: aristocracies lost power and influence to the new rulers, the conditions under which land was held could be changed, and taxation was more rigorously enforced.
  But while the castles became increasingly the centres of seigneurial lordships and the centres of the power they exercised, this meant that aristocracies were now abandoning the cities.
3. 1.3 A group regarded as privileged or superior in a particular sphere.
  high-level technocrats make up a large part of this “technical aristocracy.”
  Example sentencesExamples
  Corporate people are capitalism's new aristocracy.
  But the structure created is one again of an aristocracy of corporate executives, with the majority of ‘opportunity’ the ability to sell your labor.
  The tremendous pressure placed on Louisville workers to cater to the horse aristocracy was not limited to industries in direct contact with race fans.
  Much of the native Kentucky racing establishment resent the perceived dilution of racing's aristocracy.
  In more recent years the new aristocracies of the pop world have changed the city's landscape in their own glamorous ways.
  These groups were the intelligentsia, civil servants, the labour aristocracy, and successful petty producers.
  The marketing gurus have been the aristocracy of the sales-marketing community.
  He dresses film stars, supermodels and the aristocracy of pop in clothes that are symbols of status and success.

Usage

Aristocracy, oligarchy, and plutocracy are sometimes confused. All mean some form of rule by a small elite. Aristocracy is rule by a traditional elite, held to be made up of ‘the best’ people, and is usually hereditary. Oligarchy is literally rule by a few. Plutocracy is rule by the (necessarily few) very rich

Origin

Late 15th century: from Old French aristocratie, from Greek aristokratia, from aristos ‘best’ + -kratia ‘power’. The term originally denoted the government of a state by its best citizens, later by the rich and well born, hence the sense ‘nobility’, regardless of the form of government (mid 17th century).

词汇	aristocracy
释义	Definition of aristocracy in English: aristocracy nounPlural aristocracies ˌarɪˈstɒkrəsiˌɛrəˈstɑkrəsi usually the aristocracy 1treated as singular or plural The highest class in certain societies, typically comprising people of noble birth holding hereditary titles and offices. 贵族（阶级） members of the aristocracy 贵族阶级成员。 Example sentencesExamples From its inception, it was meant to ward off the emergence of a hereditary aristocracy in the United States. Towering over the viewer, it is an imposing icon, with a size and status which at the time would have been customary for portraits of the aristocracy or gentry. The Ottoman system had no hereditary aristocracy, and its rulers worked hard to make sure that one did not arise. John Woodcock watched as final farewells were said to a respected member of the aristocracy. The titian-haired lady of the finely-chiselled features detects the Scottish accent and confides that husband number one had been a Scot, a member of the aristocracy. In large towns, it tended to act as a collaborating class, offering the aristocracy and the upper middle class the means of power in exchange for recognition and status. This makes William Wallace less of an historical oddity for not being a member of the aristocracy when he staged his famous rebellion. Although he is descended from Russian aristocracy, he was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Classes are obvious - there were the aristocracy, the middle class or bourgeois, and of course the peasantry or rustic class. From its founder, the landed Lady Eve Balfour, onwards, the organisation has often found its supporters among the upper-middle classes and landed aristocracy. Oddly enough, the benefits he conferred upon the common people had the result of weakening the aristocracy, the social class from which he came. Highly prized de luxe models continued to be commissioned by the aristocracy and members of the bourgeoisie. Until the twentieth century, the primary patrons of churches and monasteries were the aristocracy, the only group in society who possessed the means to sponsor such projects. In a society organized according to hierarchical caste, land was controlled by the aristocracy, and the lower classes rented, borrowed, or worked the land according to a sharecropping system. A great many collectors from the upper aristocracy or rich middle classes called on her skill. This step was taken much earlier in London, where the Philharmonic Society was founded by an élite of the aristocracy, gentry, City, and professions in 1813. They seem to contain many popular beliefs and customs, perhaps as practiced by the non-Aryan locals, and were later accepted by the aristocracy and the priestly class. Some openly praised the virtues of aristocracy, though they made clear that they opposed hereditary aristocracy. By the time Messrs Landale and Morgan took to the field, duelling had ceased to be the preserve of the aristocracy and had been taken up by members of the middle classes. Tolstoy foresaw the end of the aristocracy in Russian society. Scott's casual attitude to debt was certainly closer to that of the aristocracy than the middle class. Synonyms the nobility, the peerage, the gentry, the upper class, the ruling class, the privileged class, the elite, high society, the establishment, the patriciate, the haut monde, the beau monde aristocrats, lords, ladies, peers, peers of the realm, nobles, noblemen, noblewomen, titled men/women/people, patricians informal the upper crust, the jet set, the beautiful people, the crème de la crème, the top drawer, aristos British informal nobs, toffs 1.1 A form of government in which power is held by the nobility. 贵族统治 Example sentencesExamples Aristotle pointed out in his book of lectures The Politics and in his studies of constitutions that aristocracy as an ideal too often degenerated into either oligarchy, the rule of the powerful, or plutocracy, the rule of the rich. The two could no longer coexist and it was therefore a class struggle between the Southern slaveholding aristocracy and the Northern capitalist democracy. Nor, despite their republicanism, did they seek the destruction of aristocracy. Both argued that irrespective of the form of government, be it monarchy, aristocracy, or democracy, a relatively compact minority always ruled. Aristotle produced a complex taxonomy of constitutions, the three main types of which are monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. 1.2 A state in which governing power is held by the nobility. 贵族统治 Example sentencesExamples Early British occupation was disruptive: aristocracies lost power and influence to the new rulers, the conditions under which land was held could be changed, and taxation was more rigorously enforced. Central to this absorption into the Roman system was the more or less universal devolution of the burden of routine administration to the local aristocracies that replaced the client kingdoms. The story of papal elections is really the story of the college of cardinals, which functions like the unelected aristocracies of the ancien regime. French indeed unified the aristocracies from the Capetian realm of France to southern Scotland. This would continue for some time in Byzantium and in Scandinavia, in polities of strong public power or weak aristocracies. But while the castles became increasingly the centres of seigneurial lordships and the centres of the power they exercised, this meant that aristocracies were now abandoning the cities. In essence, the Glorious Revolution was a coup d'état undertaken by an adventurous foreign prince and his mercenary army, supported by local aristocracies, not an uprising of ‘the people’. Rather they reveal Tocqueville's fixation on the contrast between classes in aristocracies and democracies. The nineteenth century saw the emergence of Italy as a unified state and as a modern political system, moving from the ancien régime of monarchs and feudal aristocracies to an elected parliament and civil rights. The aristocracies of the many peoples of Italy enjoyed a common, quite uniform culture throughout this era, which served to distinguish them from their inferiors and expressed their right to membership of the elite. The aristocracies of Milan, Naples, and Sicily intrigued against their Spanish viceroys; in Sardinia a viceroy was murdered by dissident nobles. 1.3 A group regarded as privileged or superior in a particular sphere. Britain's pop aristocracy a new aristocracy of talented young people Example sentencesExamples These groups were the intelligentsia, civil servants, the labour aristocracy, and successful petty producers. He dresses film stars, supermodels and the aristocracy of pop in clothes that are symbols of status and success. But the structure created is one again of an aristocracy of corporate executives, with the majority of ‘opportunity’ the ability to sell your labor. Corporate people are capitalism's new aristocracy. Much of the native Kentucky racing establishment resent the perceived dilution of racing's aristocracy. In more recent years the new aristocracies of the pop world have changed the city's landscape in their own glamorous ways. The marketing gurus have been the aristocracy of the sales-marketing community. The tremendous pressure placed on Louisville workers to cater to the horse aristocracy was not limited to industries in direct contact with race fans. Origin Late 15th century: from Old French aristocratie, from Greek aristokratia, from aristos 'best' + -kratia 'power'. The term originally denoted the government of a state by its best citizens, later by the rich and well born, hence the sense 'nobility', regardless of the form of government (mid 17th century). The term originally meant the government of a state by its best citizens, later by the rich and well born, which led, in the mid 17th century, to the sense ‘nobility’, regardless of the form of government. The origin is Old French aristocratie, from Greek aristokratia, from aristos ‘best’ and -kratia ‘power’. Rhymes adhocracy, autocracy, bureaucracy, democracy, gerontocracy, gynaecocracy (US gynecocracy), hierocracy, hypocrisy, meritocracy, mobocracy, monocracy, plutocracy, technocracy, theocracy Definition of aristocracy in US English: aristocracy nounˌɛrəˈstɑkrəsiˌerəˈstäkrəsē or plural, usually the aristocracy 1treated as singular or plural The highest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices. 贵族（阶级） the ancient Polish aristocracy had hereditary right to elect the king Example sentencesExamples Highly prized de luxe models continued to be commissioned by the aristocracy and members of the bourgeoisie. Some openly praised the virtues of aristocracy, though they made clear that they opposed hereditary aristocracy. A great many collectors from the upper aristocracy or rich middle classes called on her skill. By the time Messrs Landale and Morgan took to the field, duelling had ceased to be the preserve of the aristocracy and had been taken up by members of the middle classes. From its founder, the landed Lady Eve Balfour, onwards, the organisation has often found its supporters among the upper-middle classes and landed aristocracy. In a society organized according to hierarchical caste, land was controlled by the aristocracy, and the lower classes rented, borrowed, or worked the land according to a sharecropping system. Although he is descended from Russian aristocracy, he was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Tolstoy foresaw the end of the aristocracy in Russian society. Classes are obvious - there were the aristocracy, the middle class or bourgeois, and of course the peasantry or rustic class. This makes William Wallace less of an historical oddity for not being a member of the aristocracy when he staged his famous rebellion. Scott's casual attitude to debt was certainly closer to that of the aristocracy than the middle class. The titian-haired lady of the finely-chiselled features detects the Scottish accent and confides that husband number one had been a Scot, a member of the aristocracy. The Ottoman system had no hereditary aristocracy, and its rulers worked hard to make sure that one did not arise. From its inception, it was meant to ward off the emergence of a hereditary aristocracy in the United States. Towering over the viewer, it is an imposing icon, with a size and status which at the time would have been customary for portraits of the aristocracy or gentry. In large towns, it tended to act as a collaborating class, offering the aristocracy and the upper middle class the means of power in exchange for recognition and status. They seem to contain many popular beliefs and customs, perhaps as practiced by the non-Aryan locals, and were later accepted by the aristocracy and the priestly class. This step was taken much earlier in London, where the Philharmonic Society was founded by an élite of the aristocracy, gentry, City, and professions in 1813. Until the twentieth century, the primary patrons of churches and monasteries were the aristocracy, the only group in society who possessed the means to sponsor such projects. John Woodcock watched as final farewells were said to a respected member of the aristocracy. Oddly enough, the benefits he conferred upon the common people had the result of weakening the aristocracy, the social class from which he came. Synonyms the nobility, the peerage, the gentry, the upper class, the ruling class, the privileged class, the elite, high society, the establishment, the patriciate, the haut monde, the beau monde 1.1 A form of government in which power is held by the nobility. 贵族统治 Example sentencesExamples The two could no longer coexist and it was therefore a class struggle between the Southern slaveholding aristocracy and the Northern capitalist democracy. Aristotle pointed out in his book of lectures The Politics and in his studies of constitutions that aristocracy as an ideal too often degenerated into either oligarchy, the rule of the powerful, or plutocracy, the rule of the rich. Aristotle produced a complex taxonomy of constitutions, the three main types of which are monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. Nor, despite their republicanism, did they seek the destruction of aristocracy. Both argued that irrespective of the form of government, be it monarchy, aristocracy, or democracy, a relatively compact minority always ruled. 1.2 A state governed by the aristocracy. 贵族统治的国家 Example sentencesExamples The nineteenth century saw the emergence of Italy as a unified state and as a modern political system, moving from the ancien régime of monarchs and feudal aristocracies to an elected parliament and civil rights. Rather they reveal Tocqueville's fixation on the contrast between classes in aristocracies and democracies. In essence, the Glorious Revolution was a coup d'état undertaken by an adventurous foreign prince and his mercenary army, supported by local aristocracies, not an uprising of ‘the people’. French indeed unified the aristocracies from the Capetian realm of France to southern Scotland. Central to this absorption into the Roman system was the more or less universal devolution of the burden of routine administration to the local aristocracies that replaced the client kingdoms. This would continue for some time in Byzantium and in Scandinavia, in polities of strong public power or weak aristocracies. The story of papal elections is really the story of the college of cardinals, which functions like the unelected aristocracies of the ancien regime. The aristocracies of the many peoples of Italy enjoyed a common, quite uniform culture throughout this era, which served to distinguish them from their inferiors and expressed their right to membership of the elite. The aristocracies of Milan, Naples, and Sicily intrigued against their Spanish viceroys; in Sardinia a viceroy was murdered by dissident nobles. Early British occupation was disruptive: aristocracies lost power and influence to the new rulers, the conditions under which land was held could be changed, and taxation was more rigorously enforced. But while the castles became increasingly the centres of seigneurial lordships and the centres of the power they exercised, this meant that aristocracies were now abandoning the cities. 1.3 A group regarded as privileged or superior in a particular sphere. high-level technocrats make up a large part of this “technical aristocracy.” Example sentencesExamples Corporate people are capitalism's new aristocracy. But the structure created is one again of an aristocracy of corporate executives, with the majority of ‘opportunity’ the ability to sell your labor. The tremendous pressure placed on Louisville workers to cater to the horse aristocracy was not limited to industries in direct contact with race fans. Much of the native Kentucky racing establishment resent the perceived dilution of racing's aristocracy. In more recent years the new aristocracies of the pop world have changed the city's landscape in their own glamorous ways. These groups were the intelligentsia, civil servants, the labour aristocracy, and successful petty producers. The marketing gurus have been the aristocracy of the sales-marketing community. He dresses film stars, supermodels and the aristocracy of pop in clothes that are symbols of status and success. Usage Aristocracy, oligarchy, and plutocracy are sometimes confused. All mean some form of rule by a small elite. Aristocracy is rule by a traditional elite, held to be made up of ‘the best’ people, and is usually hereditary. Oligarchy is literally rule by a few. Plutocracy is rule by the (necessarily few) very rich Origin Late 15th century: from Old French aristocratie, from Greek aristokratia, from aristos ‘best’ + -kratia ‘power’. The term originally denoted the government of a state by its best citizens, later by the rich and well born, hence the sense ‘nobility’, regardless of the form of government (mid 17th century).
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