Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A member of the hereditary aristocracy of ancient Athens.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of the Eupatridæ.
- Of or pertaining to the Eupatridæ.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One well born, or of noble birth.
Etymologies
- Greek eupatridēs : eu-, eu- + patēr, patr-, father; see pəter- in Indo-European roots + -idēs, patronymic suff.
Examples
“You are of noble family, "eupatrid" by descent, a priest of the divinities,”
“You are of noble family, “eupatrid” by descent, a priest of the divinities,351 and of”
“Whatever politicians say nowadays, that house was eupatrid as far as you could trace it back.”
The Praise Singer
“Ah! revile that old faith as you will, it has lasted longer than any other cultus; and whilst altars have reeled, and idols been shattered, and priests changed their teachings, and peoples altered their gods, the old faith has lasted through all; and the simple instinct of the Greek eupatrid and of the Roman patrician still moves the heart of the English gentleman -- the instinct of _Noblesse oblige_.”
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
“To that eupatrid, joined before with himself, was now intrusted the command of the Grecian fleet.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eupatrid’.
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Logolepsy
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yarb "...and why question in 1932 (or how*?) the credo trained into us of economic propraetorships inevitably to come, the steady steak-fed beating of the Big Board heart, and naturally at the last the opulent, the eupatrid retirement?"
- W.M. Spackman, Heyday
*the text has "or how?" but I think "or now" makes asmuch/more sense given the publication date. Dec 22, 2011