as in aristocrats
a man or woman of high birth or social position
the Southern patricians who once resided in these stately plantation homes
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Noun
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Ablin focuses on dividend growers, albeit with a shorter track record than dividend aristocrats, that are also high-quality companies.—
Michelle Fox,
CNBC,
16 Sep. 2025 -
But soon Islamic scholars became recognized as the second-highest status group, ranking below aristocrats but above the merely wealthy.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
14 Sep. 2025
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Across much of Europe until the 20th century, these cabin-like compartments would carry voyaging nobles over oceans and mountains in ‘bed carriages’ aboard ships and trains.—
Chloe Frost-Smith,
Vogue,
24 Sep. 2025
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Casting black actors as Anglo-Saxon nobles is only the most in-your-face example of this problem.—
Will Collins,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Patricians.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patricians. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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