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aristocratic

/uh-ris-tuh-krat-ik, ar-uh-stuh-/US // əˌrɪs təˈkræt ɪk, ˌær ə stə- //UK // (ˌærɪstəˈkrætɪk) //

贵族化,贵族式,贵族,贵族式的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to government by an aristocracy.
    • : belonging to or favoring the aristocracy.
    • : characteristic of an aristocrat; having the manners, values, or qualities associated with the aristocracy: aristocratic bearing; aristocratic snobbishness.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.privileged, elegant

Examples

  • Such newfangled ideas as careers for aristocratic men and formal education for their future wives scandalized the older generations.

  • The aristocratic name d’Estaing had been officially added to that of his father, Edmond Giscard, only a few years before Valéry’s birth.

  • The Giscards had aristocratic connections through the women of the family.

  • As late as the fifth century, powerful aristocratic women took charge of the commemoration of the dead in Rome.

  • Love poems between aristocratic women were not uncommon at the time, as long as they stayed safely on the side of friendship.

  • “They are furious with Pippa,” an aristocratic source told Radar Online at the time.

  • The Southerners had history, ethnicity, culture, slavery, religion, and a quasi-aristocratic honor society to hold them together.

  • From an aristocratic British family, she is the founder and owner of luxury site Gift-Library.

  • Among the ladies of "gentle blood," however, there is more of the asserted aristocratic symmetry and beauty than among the men.

  • She was either aristocratic, or had something to hide, unless she responded to the confidences natural to people of that class.

  • The rough guerrilla soldier was not the soldier of the dreams of the proud, aristocratic girl.

  • No such missive had, to his knowledge, ever before found its way into the aristocratic precincts of Crompton Place.

  • It was a great event, and Jane was dressed with the utmost care to visit the aristocratic mansion.