 English |
 German |
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elite; élite [Br.] ![[listen]](/pics/s1.png "elite"){kind=small} |
Elite {f} | |
| elites | Eliten {pl} | |
| elite class | Königsklasse {f} [techn.] [sport] | |
| grassroots sport/sports; mass sport/sports; non-elite sport/sports; popular sport/sports |
Breitensport {m}; Massensport {m}; Volkssport {m} [sport] | |
| janissary (member of an elite military unit in the Ottomanian Empire) | Janitschar {f} (Mitglied einer Elitemilitäreinheit im Osmanischen Reich) [hist.] | |
| nobility; aristocracy |
Adel {m}; Aristokratie {f} [soc.] | |
| to be a member of the nobility | von Adel sein | |
| low nobility/aristocracy; gentry [Br.] | niederer Adel | |
| the nobility and the gentry [Br.] | der hohe und niedere Adel | |
| intellectual elite | geistiger Adel | |
| Noblesse oblige. | Adel verpflichtet. | |
| hereditary nobility/aristocracy |
Erbadel {m} | |
| nobility/aristocracy by birth | Geburtsadel {m} | |
| nobility/asristocracy by blood | Geblütsadel {m} | |
| landed nobility/aristocracy | Landadel {m} | |
| ancient nobility/aristocracy |
Uradel {m} | |
| aristocracies | Adligen {pl}; Adlige |