elites

NOUN

high-class persons

Synonyms

STRONGEST

aristocracy celebrity establishment society

STRONG

best choice cream crowd elect fat flower gentility gentry nobility pride prime prize quality top

WEAK

beautiful people blue blood carriage trade country club set crème de la crème fast lane glitterati high society in-crowd jet-set main line old money optimacy select upper class upper crust

Antonyms

STRONGEST

proletariat

STRONG

worst

WEAK

commonality low-life lower class ordinary

Example Sentences

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Elites can deflect, or even ignore, the demands of the have-nots for a time but not forever.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

FinCEN also works with the multilateral Russian Elites, Proxies and Oligarchs Task Force to track suspicious transactions by wealthy Russians involving real estate, luxury goods and other valuable assets.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2023

Elites in Caracas contended that the cédula real would make it even more difficult to maintain this control and could very well lead to more insurrections.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Elites from the former U.S.S.R. had vast fortunes to spend, invest and launder — and the city provided the way.

From Washington Post • Feb. 26, 2022

Elites have relatively large apartments and access to rice.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden