Aristocratic vs Belgravian - What's the difference?
aristocratic | belgravian |
Of or pertaining to an aristocracy; consisting in, or favoring, a government of nobles, or principal men.
Partaking of aristocracy; befitting aristocracy; characteristic of, or originating with, the aristocracy.
Of or pertaining to Belgravia, London.
(idiomatic) Of or pertaining to the fashionable or aristocratic life; fashionable, aristocratic.
* 1909 , The Athenæum: A Journal of Literature, Science, The Fine Arts, Music, and The Drama ,
* 1929 , , Volume 176,
A resident of Belgravia, London; by extension a member of the fashionable or aristocratic society assumed to reside in Belgravia.
* 1862 , London, and its Forms of Social Life'', in ''The Boston Review , Volume 2,
As adjectives the difference between aristocratic and belgravian
is that aristocratic is of or pertaining to an aristocracy; consisting in, or favoring, a government of nobles, or principal men while Belgravian is of or pertaining to Belgravia, London.As a noun Belgravian is
a resident of Belgravia, London; by extension a member of the fashionable or aristocratic society assumed to reside in Belgravia.aristocratic
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Alternative forms
* aristocratickAdjective
(en adjective)- An aristocratic constitution.
- An aristocratic measure.
- Aristocratic pride or manners.
References
* English words suffixed with -craticbelgravian
English
Adjective
(en adjective)page 434,
- Many of the social figures in England, male and female, especially a very Belgravian mother, Lady Clarice, are deftly drawn ; but the coloured desperado, who fails in his attack on his brother, is a little crude.
page 258,
Noun
(en noun)page 102,
- The haughty Belgravians , the aristocracy of rank, are greatly shocked at the bad manners of the aristocracy of wealth, the Barings and Rothschilds of the city, and earnestly entreat all "respectable" strangers at Prince Albert's fair to bear it ever in mind that London City is not London Town!