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One person who belongs to the highest social class. They may have a title, old family land, and a name people recognise. In some countries this still matters a lot; in others it is mostly history and manners. People also use it with a small smile: “an aristocrat of the kitchen” means someone treated as top class in that world, not someone with a title. Though actually, the French word came into hard everyday use around the French Revolution, when calling someone an aristocrat could be dangerous. Today in English it is usually a calm social label, not an attack.
貴族（指其中的一個人）
組成From French aristocrate, from the same Greek pieces as aristocracy: áristos “best” + krátos “rule.” In English: aristo- + -crat, a person of that class or that kind of rule.
同家族的字
- aristocracythe class or system this person belongs to
- aristocraticthe adjective from the same pieces
- democratshares -crat, a person in a -cracy
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
aristocratnoun/ˈæɹɪstəˌkɹæt/
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One of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in Revolutionary France).
- The remains of a Roman aristocrat have been unearthed by archaeologists in northern England.
- Magazines kept aristocrats on the payroll to facilitate access to jet-set playgrounds like Corfu and Mustique.
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A proponent of aristocracy; an advocate of aristocratic government.
- Professor Fite, in The Platonic Legend, deprecates earlier idealization, and finds Plato to be an aristocrat, something of a snob, and the advocate of a restrictively organized society. […] Plato was, as has so often been observed, temperamentally an aristocrat. And he believed that the qualities needed in his rulers were, in general, hereditary, and that given knowledge and opportunity you could deliberately breed for them.
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computingcryptographyengineeringA cipher in which the original punctuation and spacing are retained.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。