Aristocrat vs Plutocrat - What's the difference?
aristocrat | plutocrat |
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:
As nouns the difference between aristocrat and plutocrat
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 plutocrat is someone who rules by virtue of his or her wealth.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.
