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aristo

1

[ uh-ris-toh ]

noun

Chiefly British Informal.
plural aristos.


aristo-

2
  1. a learned borrowing from Greek meaning 鈥渂est,鈥 occurring either in direct loans ( aristocratic ), or in the formation of compound words:

    aristotype.

aristo

/ 蓹藞r瑟st蓹蕣; 藞忙r瑟st蓹蕣 /

noun

  1. informal.
    short for aristocrat
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of aristo1

1860鈥65; by shortening; -o

Origin of aristo2

< Greek, combining form of 谩谤颈蝉迟辞蝉 best, superlative of ari- probably a term specifying at first the upper class of society, the warrior caste; Ares, perhaps Aryan
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Example Sentences

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Neither did two other publishers of textbooks that denied Hong Kong鈥檚 colonial status: Aristo Educational Press and Modern Educational Research Society.

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The unexpected next big things turned out to be very particularly British: bad-waif Kate Moss, and cool aristo Stella Tennant, who arrived on the pages of British Vogue in 1993.

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"Once it came out that he was an 'aristo' it was all over," Stuart once said.

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Raised in a San Francisco orphanage, educated at Princeton, he has fathered two sets of twins with his Scottish aristo wife, who is herself 鈥渆ighteenth cousin to the Queen twice removed or something.鈥

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But a relationship with a woman who, never mind a ring on her finger, would probably not be allowed round an aristo dining table 鈥 it looks a tiny bit like using her.

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