Snob vs Aristocratic - What's the difference?
snob | aristocratic |
(colloquial) A cobbler or shoemaker.
* 1929 , (Frederic Manning), The Middle Parts of Fortune , Vintage 2014, p. 57:
(dated) A member of the lower classes; a commoner.
* 1844 , (Charles Dickens), Martin Chuzzlewit :
* 1913 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Poison Belt :
(informal) A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes.
* 1958 , (Arnold Wesker), Roots :
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.
As a noun snob
is .As an adjective aristocratic is
aristocratic.snob
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Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia snob)- The snobs were also kind to him, and gave him a pair of boots which they assured him were of a type and quality reserved entirely for officers […].
- 'D'ye know a slap-up sort of button, when you see it?' said the youth. 'Don't look at mine, if you ain't a judge, because these lions' heads was made for men of men of taste: not snobs .'
- I tell you, sir, that I have a brain of my own, and that I should feel myself to be a snob and a slave if I did not use it.
- If wanting the best things in life means being a snob' then glory hallelujah I'm a ' snob .
Derived terms
* snobbery * snobbish * snobbyCoordinate terms
* posh * social climberAnagrams
* * ----aristocratic
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Alternative forms
* aristocratickAdjective
(en adjective)- An aristocratic constitution.
- An aristocratic measure.
- Aristocratic pride or manners.
