OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 17383

aristocracy

/ˌæ.ɹɪˈstɒk.ɹə.si/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
aristocracia
The nobility, or the hereditary ruling class.
But when Nietzsche has the incredible lack of humour and lack of imagination to ask us to believe that his aristocracy is an aristocracy of strong muscles or an aristocracy of stro…
That, then, which is called aristocracy in some countries and nobility in others arose out of the governments founded upon conquest.
aristocracia
Government by such a class, or a state with such a government.
How many false principles have been laid down, how much delusion supported, by reference to the glories of Athens and of Rome! It remained for a later time to observe that those so…
aristocracia
A class of people considered (not normally universally) superior to others.
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