EGAVE

elite

About 14.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.
  2. adjective Representing the choicest or most select of a group.
  3. noun A special group or social class of people who have a superior social or economic status and attendant power, advantages, or privileges in society; a member of such a group.
    constituting an elite
  4. noun An individual member of such a group.
  5. noun Someone who is among the best at a certain task.
  6. noun A typeface with 12 characters per inch.

Similar words

elect selected gentry upper-class nobility aristocracy aristocratic oligarchy leadership seasoned

Often followed by

of and in to group was is groups who

Word family

elites elitism elitisms

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