élite

Definitions of élite
  1. noun
    a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status
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    intelligentsia
    an educated and intellectual elite
    fine fleur, haute société, élites
    the fashionable elite
    aristocratie, noblesse
    a privileged class holding hereditary titles
    aristocratie, noblesse
    members of the nobility (especially of the French nobility)
    pairie
    the peers of a kingdom considered as a group
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    haute société
    the class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy
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