elite
pronunciation
How to pronounce elite in British English:
UK [eɪˈliːt , ɪˈliːt]
How to pronounce elite in American English:
US [eɪˈliːt , ɪˈliːt]
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- Noun:
- a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status
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- Adjective:
- selected as the best
Word Origin
- élite
- élite: see elect
- elite (n.)
- "a choice or select body, the best part," 1823, from French élite "selection, choice," from Old French eslite (12c.), fem. past participle of elire, elisre "pick out, choose," from Latin eligere "choose" (see election). Borrowed in Middle English as "chosen person" (late 14c.), especially a bishop-elect; died out mid-15c.; re-introduced by Byron's "Don Juan." As an adjective by 1852. As a typeface, first recorded 1920.
Example
- 1. Elite controllers thus never develop the symptoms of aids .
- 2. The current global elite cannot .
- 3. They became north korea 's ruling elite .
- 4. The greek policymaking elite believes it is .
- 5. Europe 's elite once wrote in latin .