(n.) One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble.
(n.) One who is overbearing in his temper or habits; a proud or haughty person.
(n.) One who favors an aristocracy as a form of government, or believes the aristocracy should govern.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wealthy, charismatic, aristocratic, 6ft 2ins and with a luxuriant moustache, he led a decadent life.
(2) The Aristocrats is a gag comedians tell each other in private.
(3) Wilde, however, with his high earnings and his flamboyance, made of precariousness something aristocratic; he was, if you’ll forgive the coinage, a precaristocrat.
(4) A rather eccentric populist-aristocratic campaign called You Forgot the Birds has also been launched against the RSPB led by the former cricketer Ian Botham, claiming that the charity neglects small songbirds in its veneration of birds of prey.
(5) After 12 years of Churchill, Eden and Macmillan, most people in the media were tired of aristocratic old men in tweed jackets.
(6) Fifty years later, Frostie, as his aristocratic nephews and nieces sometimes called him (his wife, Carina, was a daughter of the Duke of Norfolk), was still warding off brickbats from high-minded critics.
(7) As we speak the final 10 days of production are under way, meaning farewell to the show’s trump card, Highclere Castle, home of real-life aristocrats, the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon.
(8) (Shades of Louis XIV’s France, when aristocrats were exempt from tax.)
(9) Inspector Reg Wexford wasn’t an aristocrat or a brilliant Oxbridge wit.
(10) When the family arrived in England in 1938, his father anglicised the name to Lynton from an aristocratic German mouthful, though Norbert's elder brother scorned this refuge.
(11) Owning an island in the Pacific (Ellison owns Lanai in Hawaii) or the Caribbean (Branson owns Necker Island in the West Indies) shows your need for extreme privacy and luxury – the quintessential expression of a natural aristocrat.
(12) Even the king's private life, where rumours of lovers have always been rife, is no longer out of bounds – and neither is his friendship with a German aristocrat whose name is widely available in Spain and Germany, but whose lawyers say she denies any inappropriate relationship and have threatened legal action against any British newspapers that reveal her name.
(13) Clodia Metelli The epitome of the chic, sexy, scandalous aristocrat of 1st century BC Rome, Metelli was supposedly the "Lesbia" to whom the love-lorn poems of Catullus are addressed (and if so, a total ball-breaker).
(14) The idea of the vampire as a silver-tongued aristocrat, like Count Dracula, is mirrored in Irving's thespian mannerisms, and his fascination with theatrical villains.
(15) It will determine whether Russia will be dominated by an "aristocratic" or "arrestocratic" dynamic into the second decade of the 21st century.
(16) Ishiguro's flawed but introspective narrators are always fascinating portraits of unusual characters: in A Pale View from the Hills, the narrator is a Japanese widow living in England, The Remains of the Day is narrated by the butler of an Nazi-sympathising English aristocrat, and a callow English private detective is the central character in When We Were Orphans.
(17) Thinking about it, the best metaphor might be a row among one of those aristocratic families whose stately home is falling down around them.
(18) Is the collapse of the party that turned this country from an enclave of aristocratic power into a functioning democracy inevitable?
(19) The ITV drama, telling the story of the aristocratic Crawley family, is to return to screens later this year for the fifth series since its debut in 2010.
(20) "You have to remember that, back in India, we came from an aristocratic background," Desai says.
Lafayette
Definition:
(n.) The dollar fish.
(n.) A market fish, the goody, or spot (Liostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the United States.
Example Sentences:
(1) She was a once-in-a-lifetime gal.” A friend of Breaux wrote on Instagram: “God really does give his best angels their wings first.” Breaux was a student at Louisiana State University in Eunice and lived in Lafayette, where she was working at clothing retailer Coco Eros.
(2) Phenix appears to be Houser’s last permanent address, but he had been in Lafayette, a city of 124,000 roughly 500 miles west, for long enough to make an impression on local business owners.
(3) On Friday, police in Lafayette, Louisiana, were trying to piece together scraps of a life and a motive.
(4) A lone gunman opened fire inside a crowded movie theatre in Lafayette, Louisiana , on Thursday evening, killing two people and injuring at least nine others before taking his own life, police said.
(5) The study was conducted in the three contiguous counties of Johnson, Lafayette and Pettis in west central Missouri.
(6) They are moving into Lafayette Park and my dad wants to join the soccer team there.” Allen’s parents are not alone.
(7) Subjects were 48 prisoners examined regarding a mock theft in a peer threat context; physiological responses were recorded simultaneously on a Lafayette field polygraph and a Sensor Medics laboratory polygraph.
(8) David Callecod, president of Lafayette General Health, said all five people treated at his hospital had gunshot wounds.
(9) Lafayette shooting victims were a bright student and an artistic entrepeneur Read more But the nation’s capital has shown itself to be even more resistant to gun reforms, despite an aggressive effort by Barack Obama to expand background checks after the 2012 elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
(10) Extensive surveys were conducted in 1987 in Baytown, TX; Lafayette, Shreveport and Baton Rouge, LA; Memphis, TN; Kansas City, MO; Evansville, IN; and Jacksonville, FL.
(11) Speaking to CNN, Jindal said: “This was an awful, awful night – for Lafayette, for Louisiana, for our entire country.
(12) On Thursday night, Lafayette, Louisiana , found itself at the center of a tragedy.
(13) Lafayette’s police chief, Jim Craft, said a quick response by police officers prevented further deaths.
(14) Map - Lafayette location Later it emerged that two teachers who had been in the theatre had raised the alarm and one had even thrown herself in front of the shooter to save her friend.
(15) John Houser named by police as Lafayette movie theater gunman Read more Among them were two teachers from Jeanerette high school, Jena Meaux and Allister Viator Martin.
(16) Johnson, who died in hospital, was co-owner with her husband of a craft shop, the Red Arrow Workshop, in Lafayette.
(17) The only connection they had found between Craft and Lafayette so far was that he had an uncle who lived there – but he had been dead for 35 years.
(18) The big names – Aurora , Sandy Hook , Fort Hood , Tucson , Virginia Tech, Lafayette , Isla Vista , the Navy Yard , Charleston – you remember.
(19) The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed to GuardianUS that it is investigating the University of Texas, Alpha Genesis, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Primate Products, University of California, Davis, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, Emory University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, over potential violations of the Animal Welfare Act.