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ELITE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status
Synonyms:
elite; elite group
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("elite" is a kind of...):
upper class; upper crust (the class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy)
Meronyms (members of "elite"):
technocrat (an expert who is a member of a highly skilled elite group)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "elite"):
chosen; elect (an exclusive group of people)
cream; pick (the best people or things in a group)
clerisy; intelligentsia (an educated and intellectual elite)
beau monde; bon ton; high society; smart set; society (the fashionable elite)
few (a small elite group)
aristocracy; nobility (a privileged class holding hereditary titles)
Derivation:
elite (selected as the best)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Selected as the best
Example:
elite colleges
Synonyms:
elect; elite
Classified under:
Similar:
selected (chosen in preference to another)
Derivation:
elite (a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status)
