aristocracy's
Ruling nobles' possession
Aristocracy's is the possessive form of aristocracy, which refers to a hereditary ruling class or government by nobles.
The word marks something as belonging to or associated with that class: the aristocracy's grip on political power, the aristocracy's estates were seized during the revolution.
Large, stately houses
- servantsHired household workers
- carriagesWheeled vehicles for passengers
- estatesLarge property holdings
- jewelsOrnamental precious stones
heirlooms · fortunes · trusts · endowments · patronage · opulence · luxuries · finery
Names of creative works
- estatesLarge property holdings
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- peerageSystem of noble ranks
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
hereditary · landed · ancestral · dukes · earls · barons · viscounts · marquesses
Power to affect others
- dominionAuthority to rule
- privilegeExclusive right or benefit
- ruleGoverning principle or standard
- governanceHow authority is exercised
oligarchy · elite · hegemony · authority · court · patronage · sway · mandate
Rules of polite conduct
- refinementElegance of manner
- mannersCustoms of polite conduct
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
- salonsGrooming establishments
balls · society · finishing · deportment · accomplishments · propriety · decorum · cotillions
Violent governmental overthrow
- dispossessionDeprival of property rights
- taxationCompulsory government revenue collection
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
- democratizationTransition toward popular rule
impoverishment · dissolution · exile · guillotine · confiscation · redistribution · reform · downfall
mansions
Large, stately houses
- servantsHired household workers
- carriagesWheeled vehicles for passengers
- estatesLarge property holdings
jewels · heirlooms · fortunes · trusts · endowments · patronage · opulence · luxuries · finery · landholdings
titles
Names of creative works
bloodline · hereditary · landed · ancestral · dukes · earls · barons · viscounts · marquesses · lords
influence
Power to affect others
governance · oligarchy · elite · hegemony · authority · court · patronage · sway · mandate · sovereignty
etiquette
Rules of polite conduct
- refinementElegance of manner
- mannersCustoms of polite conduct
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
salons · balls · society · finishing · deportment · accomplishments · propriety · decorum · cotillions · debuts
revolution
Violent governmental overthrow
- dispossessionDeprival of property rights
- taxationCompulsory government revenue collection
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
democratization · impoverishment · dissolution · exile · guillotine · confiscation · redistribution · reform · downfall · obsolescence
aristocracy'scommoners
Ordinary citizens, untitled
peasantry's · masses · plebeians · serfs · bourgeoisie's
- British aristocracyEngland's hereditary upper class
- landed aristocracyNobles whose wealth derives from estates
- French aristocracyTitled upper class
- English aristocracyHereditary ruling class
- southern aristocracyLanded gentry of lower latitudes
- Byzantine aristocracyElite of medieval Constantinople