Synonyms:
aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician
Meaning: belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes"
Usage examples
What aristocratic notion could prevent him?
There was grief in the aristocratic house, and there was joy in the Bower.
Forsooth, it is aristocratic, gay, graceful, piquant, and also something more.
"They taught me all those well-bred, aristocratic dances when I was little...."
"I have a lunch-basket to carry with me, which is aristocratic and no advantage.
A lovely pea-green is the precise shade on which to found aristocratic distinction.
It is not mere inequality, therefore, that can be a reproach to the aristocratic or theistic ideal.
Aristocratic institutions have, moreover, the effect of closely binding every man to several of his fellow-citizens.
In aristocratic countries there are few public officers who do not affect to serve their country without interested motives.
Yet in aristocratic society it constantly happens that he who works for honor is not insensible to the attractions of profit.