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aristocracy
has definitions from the field of sociology
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[ noun ] (sociology) a privileged class holding hereditary titles
Synonyms Used in print (Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)Seeing him in that condition , and about to enter the hall where the King , the Queen , the whole royal_family and all the members of the highest aristocracy would be present , Grimm and the Abbe_Raynal and_others tried to stop him . |
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[ noun ] (sociology) the most powerful members of a society
Synonyms Used in print (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)The planter aristocracy has appeared in literature at_least since John_Pendleton_Kennedy published Swallow-Barn in 1832 and in his genial portrait of Frank_Meriwether presiding over his plantation dominion initiated the most persistent tradition of Southern literature . Related terms |
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