elite

Speech parts

1. elite - Noun

2. elite - Adjective

3. elite - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

A choice or select body; the flower; as, the elite of society.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

best leading top noble superior chosen exclusive select elect aristocratic privileged upper class supreme pearl olympian
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Antonyms

mass commons pueblo battalion parkland public
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Hypernyms

upper class upper crust

Hyponyms

few society chosen nobility pick cream

Related terms

selection select eligible elect elegant elitist

Phrases with the word

corps d'elite social elite fashionable elite elite culture elite honors elite bird

Anagrams

Eitel Leite Tiele

Examples

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. Hannah Arendt

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. Gerald Ford

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world. Hugo Chávez

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity. Vernor Vinge

The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone. Camille Paglia

If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to fine-tune accumulation, then how can the periodic headlong slides into crisis be explained? David Harvey

Close letter words and terms

elistic elitarian elitarianism elite accent elite armies elite bird