as in noble
a person of high birth or social position
could trace his lineage to an English aristocrat of the 17th century
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Recent Examples of aristocrat
Alibert gained notoriety for her affair with the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII and then Duke of Windsor, in 1917 while he was stationed in Paris, and then for shooting dead her wealthy Egyptian aristocrat husband Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey in The Savoy Hotel in London in 1923.
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Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 16 May 2026
Rossellini plays the formidable Madame de Noailles, an old-school aristocrat devoted to Marie Antoinette and haunted by a lost love.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 15 May 2026
What begins as a job centered on a single masterpiece slowly expands into a plan where the real target is not the painting itself, but the entire financial structure protecting a powerful aristocrat.
—Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 15 May 2026
The post by the planet’s richest aerospace aristocrat triggered space-sector shockwaves that criss-crossed the continents.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
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Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 16 May 2026
Rossellini plays the formidable Madame de Noailles, an old-school aristocrat devoted to Marie Antoinette and haunted by a lost love.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 15 May 2026
What begins as a job centered on a single masterpiece slowly expands into a plan where the real target is not the painting itself, but the entire financial structure protecting a powerful aristocrat.
—Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 15 May 2026
The post by the planet’s richest aerospace aristocrat triggered space-sector shockwaves that criss-crossed the continents.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aristocrat
noble
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One of these high-ranking British nobles was the Earl of Euston.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
1 June 2026
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Past the violin was an oil painting of the child Mozart entertaining nobles at the Maison du Temple.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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“Aristocrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aristocrat. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.
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