Aristocrat vs Aristo - What's the difference?
aristocrat | aristo |
One of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in Revolutionary France).
A proponent of aristocracy; an advocate of aristocratic government.
* 1974 : (2nd edition, revised; Penguin Classics; ISBN 0140440488), Translator’s Introduction, pages 51 and 53:
(informal) An aristocrat
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=February 24, author=James Kaplan, title=Reader, He Married Her, work=New York Times
, passage=This is a beautiful world of enlightened aristos , the kind of people who know not only wine but Italian art and, to a great extent, themselves. }}
(slang) A wealthy man, especially married, who has sexual affairs with much younger women and spends money on them
As nouns the difference between aristocrat and aristo
is that aristocrat is one of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in Revolutionary France) while aristo is an aristocrat.aristocrat
English
(Aristocracy)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
Hyponyms
* See alsoaristo
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