a·ris·to·crat ( -r s t-kr t , rs-)n. 1. A member of a ruling class or of the nobility. 2. A person having the tastes, manners, or other characteristics of the aristocracy: a natural aristocrat who insists on the best accommodations. 3. A person who advocates government by an aristocracy. 4. One considered the best of its kind: the aristocrat of cars. [French aristocrate, from aristocratie, aristocracy, from Old French, from Late Latin aristocratia; see aristocracy.] a·ris to·cratic, a·risto·crati·cal adj.a·ris to·crati·cal·ly adv. |
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| Adv. | 1. |  aristocratically - in an aristocratic manner; "they behaved aristocratically" |
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