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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The revelations from the files further fueled the widespread, bipartisan exasperation among voters with the wealthiest elites.

From Salon • Jun. 27, 2026

The next window for new measures to spur growth comes in late July when ruling Communist Party elites gather to hash out economic policy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2026

In July 2024, Rinderknecht demanded the chatbot generate an image that showed wealthy elites dining extravagantly on one side of a wall while the world burned beyond the barricade.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

It estimated that 66 percent of the around $5.5 billion generated by mining each year was controlled by political elites working in cahoots with organized crime through murky public-private "strategic alliances."

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

As he measured a line of society elites, he saw Vernet slipping out of the room.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day