elite

Definition for elite

adjective as in best, first-class

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choice, cool, crack, elect, noble, pick, super, top

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aristocratic, gilt-edged, greatest, select, selected, tiptop, top-drawer, top-notch, topflight, upper-class, world-class

noun as in high-class persons

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aristocracy, celebrity, establishment, society

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best, choice, cream, crowd, elect, fat, flower, gentility, gentry, nobility, pride, prime, prize, quality, top

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beautiful people, blue blood, carriage trade, country-club set, crème de la crème, fast lane, glitterati, high society, in-crowd, jet-set, main line, old money, optimacy, select, upper class, upper crust

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That’s never going to happen, and whatever compromises party elites could make to try to force it would amount to nothing more than a pile of platitudes.

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Syria's north-west Mediterranean coast is the heartland of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam to which many of the former Assad regime's political and military elite belonged.

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In writings and interviews, Vance has expressed an ideology that in his mind joins the dots between American workers, global elites and the role of the US in the wider world.

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The region is the heartland of the Alawite sect, to which many of the former regime's political and military elite belonged.

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The Republican Party and the vast majority of American elites have certainly been a perfect illustration of that.

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