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Elite vs Elect - What's the difference?

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Elect is a related term of elite.



As adjectives the difference between elite and elect

is that elite is of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician while elect is who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.

As nouns the difference between elite and elect

is that elite is a special group or social class of people which have a superior intellectual, social or economic status as, the elite of society while elect is one chosen or set apart.

As a verb elect is

to choose or make a decision (to do something.

elite

English

(wikipedia elite)

Alternative forms

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Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.
  • Representing the choicest or most select of a group.
  • * 2013 , Louise Taylor, English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing'' (in ''The Guardian , 20 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/aug/19/english-talent-premier-league-importing]
    • Not since Coventry in 1992 has a Premier League side kicked off a campaign with an all-English XI but things have reached the point where, of the 61 signings who have cost the elite division's 20 clubs a transfer fee this summer, only 12 have involved Englishmen.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A special group or social class of people which have a superior intellectual, social or economic status as, the elite of society.
  • * {{quote-news
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  • Someone who is among the best at a certain task.
  • * 1964 , " France's Culture Corps," Time , 7 Aug.,
    • Is there a nobler or more disinterested aim than to educate the cadres, the elites of tomorrow?

    Derived terms

    * global elite * power elite

    Related terms

    * elect * * elitism * elitist * * select * selection

    External links

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    elect

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • One chosen or set apart.
  • (uncountable, theology) In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.
  • * Bible, Isaiah xlii. 1
    • Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect , in whom my soul delighteth.
  • * Bible, Luke xviii. 7
    • Shall not God avenge his won elect ?

    Antonyms

    * reprobate

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To choose or make a decision (to do something)
  • To choose (a candidate) in an election

    • Related terms

    * election * elective * elite * select * selection * selective

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (used only after the noun) Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.
    • He is the President-elect .
  • * 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 16
    • She began almost to feel a dislike of Edward; and it ended, as every feeling must end with her, by carrying back her thoughts to Willoughby, whose manners formed a contrast sufficiently striking to those of his brother elect .
  • Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
  • * Spenser
    • colours quaint elect
  • * Bible, 1 Timothy v. 21
    • the elect angels

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