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Spell Bee Word: Aristocracy


What does aristocracy mean?

Word: Aristocracy

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Aristocracy means the highest social class in some countries, made up of families with titles and land; also government by such people.

Synonyms: gentry, elite, upper class

Antonyms: commoners

How do you spell aristocracy?

Syllables: ar - is - toc - ra - cy

Tricky part: The ending is cracy, as in democracy. Students write aristocrasy or change the first i to e.

Watch out for: aristocrasy, arestocracy, aristocricy

Memory tip: Aristocracy ends with the same cracy as democracy and bureaucracy: c-r-a-c-y means rule.

Aristocracy in a sentence

Example 1: In old France the aristocracy lived in grand palaces.

Example 2: The novel shows the life of the British aristocracy a hundred years ago.

Example 3: Members of the aristocracy often owned huge estates in the countryside.

Fun Fact

The word comes from Greek aristos, best, and kratos, power. It first meant rule by the best citizens.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

aristocracy

a) peasantry
b) nobility
c) majority
d) poverty

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b) nobility. The nobility is the class of titled families, the same group as the aristocracy.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Many old mansions in Venice were built for the local aristacracy and their large families.

a) mansions
b) families
c) Venice
d) aristacracy

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d) aristacracy. After arist comes an o, then cracy.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

cotsrayciar

a) autocracy
b) theocracy
c) aristocracy
d) plutocracy

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c) aristocracy. Find arist at the front and cracy at the back: eleven letters, nothing left over.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which title belongs to a member of the aristocracy?

a) duke
b) director
c) deputy
d) doctor

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a) duke

2. Which word names one member of the aristocracy?

a) democrat
b) autocrat
c) bureaucrat
d) aristocrat

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d) aristocrat

Associated Words

Words that end in -acy: advocacy, diplomacy, accuracy, literacy, adequacy, candidacy

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: elite

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