Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To choose; elect.
- n. One chosen; a person elected.
- n. A choice or select body; the best part: as, the élite of society.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A choice or select body; the flower.
- n. See Army organization,
Switzerland .
WordNet 3.0
- adj. selected as the best
- n. a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status
Etymologies
- Borrowing from French élite (Wiktionary)
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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The New Yorker's style manual
This list is my attempt to figure out The New Yorker's style and usage guidelines. It is based on reading articles within the pages of that venerable magazine and working backward. Feel free to add...
coöperate, diaeresis, trema, dieresis, t. h. white write..., updike plug, meracious eclecti..., kael without fail, E.B. White, coöperation, zoölogical, reënter and 14 more...
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quaint orthography
'cello, 'phone, shalln't, rôle, to-day, to-morrow, gaol, 'fridge, 'bus, 'flu, 'plane, élite and 3 more...
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