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ARISTOCRATIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
Example:
patrician tastes
Synonyms:
aristocratic; aristocratical; blue; blue-blooded; gentle; patrician
Classified under:
Similar:
noble (of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times)
Derivation:
aristocracy (the most powerful members of a society)
aristocracy (a privileged class holding hereditary titles)
Context examples:
It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Remembering the painted boots, she surveyed her white satin slippers with girlish satisfaction, and chasseed down the room, admiring her aristocratic feet all by herself.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It was evident that to his intensely aristocratic nature this discussion of his intimate family affairs with a stranger was most abhorrent, and that he feared lest every fresh question would throw a fiercer light into the discreetly shadowed corners of his ducal history.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The last squire dragged out his existence there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he established a large practice.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You can talk so well, look so aristocratic in your best things, and behave so beautifully, if you try, that I'm proud of you.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It was not big nor red, like poor 'Petrea's', it was only rather flat, and all the pinching in the world could not give it an aristocratic point.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But even the satisfaction of talking with a distant connection of the British nobility did not render Amy forgetful of time, and when the proper number of minutes had passed, she reluctantly tore herself from this aristocratic society, and looked about for Jo, fervently hoping that her incorrigible sister would not be found in any position which should bring disgrace upon the name of March.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"I'll leave you in peace if you'll only let your hair grow. I'm not aristocratic, but I do object to being seen with a person who looks like a young prize fighter," observed Jo severely.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It is one of her aristocratic tastes, and quite proper, for a real lady is always known by neat boots, gloves, and handkerchief, replied Meg, who had a good many little 'aristocratic tastes' of her own.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Never forgetting that by birth she was a gentlewoman, she cultivated her aristocratic tastes and feelings, so that when the opportunity came she might be ready to take the place from which poverty now excluded her.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
