#aristocracy

• Anti-feudal — Opposing feudalism, manorial social structures, or hereditary aristocratic privileges; a movement, doctrine, or revolt aimed at abolishing serfdom, emancipating the peasantry, and establishing modern legal and economic relations. The term describes the revolutionary transformations oriented toward eliminating feudal servitude.
• Boyar lady — The wife of an archon or a high-ranking boyar; an archaic term used in the Romanian principalities to designate a woman from the high nobility, who enjoyed a privileged social status and community respect due to her husband's rank.
• Aristocrat — A person belonging to the aristocracy, a privileged social class consisting of nobles of ancient lineage who hold hereditary titles, large estates, and, historically, major political power. As an adjective, it describes refined, elegant, or distinguished behavior, or a superior attitude reminiscent of noble elites; it can also denote a political structure or system where power is held by a select, privileged few.
• Aristocracy — A form of government in which power is held by a privileged minority, considered superior by birth, rank, merit, or wealth; the totality of persons constituting the noble class in a state. In a figurative sense, the term designates an elite in a specific field (intellectual, artistic, scientific) distinguished by excellence, exceptional value, distinction, and elegance of manners.
• Nobility — A collective noun designating the totality of aristocrats or people belonging to the noble class; the high nobility. The term is often used in literature or historical analysis to describe the privileged social stratum, defined by hereditary titles, large landed estates, and a dominant political influence within a state.