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Aristocrat vs Monarch - What's the difference?

aristocrat | monarch |

As nouns the difference between aristocrat and monarch

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 monarch is monarch (head of state in a monarchy).

aristocrat

English

(Aristocracy)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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:
  • 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 also

    monarch

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The ruler of an absolute monarchy or the head of state of a constitutional monarchy.
  • * 1598 , (William Shakespeare), Henry V , Act II, Scene II, line 25.
  • Never was monarch better fear'd and lov'd / Than is your Majesty.
  • The monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus , found primarily in North America, so called because of the designs on its wings.
  • Police.
  • *1961 , (Nene Gare), The Fringe Dwellers , Text Classics 2012, p. 41:
  • *:‘Skippy gets off. An ya know the first thing e says to them monarch ? E turns round on em an yelps, “An now ya can just gimme back that bottle.”’
  • Usage notes

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    Synonyms

    * (ruler) autocrat, autocrator, big man, despot, dictator, , potentate, sovereign, tyrant

    Derived terms

    * monarchism * monarchist * monarchy

    Hyponyms

    * (ruler) emperor, empress, king, queen

    See also

    * (projectlink) * (Danaus plexippus) A monarch can have any of the following titles: * emperor/empress * king/queen * prince/princess * grand duke/grand duchess

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