Unscramble

a 1 r 1 i 1 s 1 t 1 o 1 c 3 r 1 a 1 t 1

10 letters · 12 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun a member of the aristocracy

originFrom French aristocrate (“aristocrat”), attested once in the 16th century but recoined in the Revolutionary era, from aristocratie (“aristocracy”), from Medieval Latin aristocratia, from Ancient Greek ἀριστοκρατία (aristokratía), from ἄριστος (áristos, “best”) (compare Old English ar) + κράτος (krátos, “rule”). By surface analysis, aristo- + -crat.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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