Aristocrat vs Royalty - What's the difference?
aristocrat | royalty |
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:
The rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.
People of royal rank, plus their families, treated as a group.
A royal right or prerogative, such as the exploitation of a natural resource; the granting of such a right; payment received for such a right
The payment received by an owner of real property for exploitation of mineral rights on his property.
(by extension) payment made to a writer, composer, inventor etc for the sale or use of intellectual property, invention etc.
(poker, slang) A king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
As nouns the difference between aristocrat and royalty
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 royalty is the rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.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 alsoroyalty
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Noun
(royalties)References
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523 ----