Entry Word: elite

Function: noun

Meaning: individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class <the winners of this science award represent the elite of our high schools>

Synonyms best, choice, cream, elect, fat, flower, pick, prime, upper crust

Related Words aristocracy, (the) establishment, gentry, nobility, society, (the) top, upper class

Phrases cream of the crop

Near Antonyms commoners, masses, rank and file