Synonyms of aristocrat

aristocrat

noun

ə-ˈri-stə-ˌkrat 

as in noble

a person of high birth or social position

could trace his lineage to an English aristocrat of the 17th century

Synonyms & Similar Words

• noble
• patrician
• magnate
• gentle
• blue blood
• socialite
• gentleperson
• mogul
• nabob
• gentlefolk
• swell
• magnifico

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• commoner
• proletarian
• peasant
• plebeian
• canaille
• peon
• pleb
• boor
• fellah
• roturier

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of aristocrat

The 44-page notebook dates to 1778, when the composer was living in Paris and teaching composition lessons to a young aristocrat named Marie-Louise-Philippine de Guînes. — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026

These Virginia aristocrats had been raised on the same Enlightenment thinkers—David Hume and Adam Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire—as John Adams and Samuel Adams had. — James Traub, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026

One only has to think about the British fight against Nazism to be reminded that it was made of imperialists, constitutionalists, stick-in-the-mud aristocrats, and the socialists who first helped put Winston Churchill into power and then five years later helped push him out again. — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 8 June 2026

In Sally Potter’s 1992 masterpiece Orlando, Virginia Woolf’s classic novel of a British aristocrat who is born in the Elizabethan era and goes on to live for hundreds of years—oh, and who also changes genders at around the age of 30—is brought to bold and brilliant visual life. — Liam Hess, Vogue, 28 June 2026