Entry Word: aristocracy

Function: noun

Meaning: the highest class in a society <at one time in China only the aristocracy could own land>

Synonyms gentry, upper class, upper crust

Related Words elect, elite, establishment, gentlefolk, jet set, nobility, quality, royalty, society

Near Antonyms commoners, (the) crowd, (the) masses, peasantry, peonage, (the) people, plebeians, (the) populace, (the) public, rank and file; bourgeoisie, middle class, working class; dregs, (the) herd, (the) mob, rabble, riffraff, scum, trash

Antonyms proletarians, proletariat