aristocracy

Upon his arrival in London, Mai became something of a celebrity among the aristocracy, and was welcomed by King George III.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Ms. Allen, a professor at Harvard, claims to have discovered a secret impresario of radical political thinking in the highest reaches of the British aristocracy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Describing himself as a Catholic from the impoverished aristocracy and an entrepreneur, he says it would offend against both his ethics and his business sense to exclude people from the banquets.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

Dior designer Jonathan Anderson delivered his vision Wednesday of "today's aristocracy" in his second menswear show for the brand in Paris, mixing new gender-mixed creations with house symbols.

From Barron's ● Jan. 21, 2026

They learned their way around the local grocery store, Heinen’s, which Mia said treated you like aristocracy.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

From this combination a meritocracy emerged, supplanting aristocracies in lands where feudalism had been weakened by progress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

After 500 BCE, a compromise government called oligarchy tended to replace both aristocracies and tyrannies.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

Men’s Final Four berths, of course, come to basketball aristocracies in Lexington, Ky., or Durham or Chapel Hill, N.C., or, of late, suburban Philadelphia.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2019

We broke the old aristocracies, declaring ourselves entitled not by bloodline, but endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights. 

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2015

Their many societies had developed rigid social and economic class structures in which wealth and power were concentrated among monarchies, aristocracies, and the Catholic Church.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz