Definition of Plutocrat

1. Noun. Someone who exercises power by virtue of wealth.

Generic synonyms: Have, Rich Person, Wealthy Person

Definition of Plutocrat

1. n. One whose wealth gives him power or influence; one of the plutocracy.

Definition of Plutocrat

1. Noun. someone who rules by virtue of his or her wealth. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Plutocrat

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plutocrat

plusses
plussing
plutarchy
plute
pluteal
plutei
pluterperfect
plutes
pluteus
pluteuses
plutino
plutinos
pluto
plutocracies
plutocracy
plutocrat (current term)
plutocratic
plutocratical
plutocratically
plutocrats
plutodemocracies
plutodemocracy
plutodemocratic
plutoed
plutography
plutoid
plutoids
plutoing
plutology
plutomania

Literary usage of Plutocrat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1887)
"THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE plutocrat The world has long since accredited the fathers of the republic with a marvelous insight and grasp of the fundamental ..."

2. London Society edited by James Hogg, Florence Marryat (1879)
"The plutocrat likes to have Scrope at his house and to trot him out to the ... He is just the man the plutocrat admires. He is a gentleman by birth, ..."

3. The Struggle for Existence by Walter Thomas Mills (1904)
"Its cry was against the plutocrat, not so much because he controlled in the market ... The plutocrat, the Democrat and Socialism. - The political warfare of ..."

4. The Forerunner, His Parables and Poems by Kahlil Gibran (1920)
"THE plutocrat IN my wanderings I once saw upon an island a man-headed, iron-hoofed monster who ate of the earth and drank of the sea incessantly. ..."

5. The Influence of Puritanism on the Political & Religious Thought of the English by John Stephen Flynn (1920)
"CHAPTER XIII plutocrat AND PATRICIAN HARROW-ON-THE-HILL is a fair place. It is one of the three great schools which seem to the outsider to be in a ringed ..."

6. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"plutocrat, one who rules in virtue of wealth. When they, the tyrants of the earth, who lived delicately with her, rejoicing in her sins, the plutocrats and ..."

7. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1887)
"THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE plutocrat The world has long since accredited the fathers of the republic with a marvelous insight and grasp of the fundamental ..."

8. London Society edited by James Hogg, Florence Marryat (1879)
"The plutocrat likes to have Scrope at his house and to trot him out to the ... He is just the man the plutocrat admires. He is a gentleman by birth, ..."

9. The Struggle for Existence by Walter Thomas Mills (1904)
"Its cry was against the plutocrat, not so much because he controlled in the market ... The plutocrat, the Democrat and Socialism. - The political warfare of ..."

10. The Forerunner, His Parables and Poems by Kahlil Gibran (1920)
"THE plutocrat IN my wanderings I once saw upon an island a man-headed, iron-hoofed monster who ate of the earth and drank of the sea incessantly. ..."

11. The Influence of Puritanism on the Political & Religious Thought of the English by John Stephen Flynn (1920)
"CHAPTER XIII plutocrat AND PATRICIAN HARROW-ON-THE-HILL is a fair place. It is one of the three great schools which seem to the outsider to be in a ringed ..."

12. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"plutocrat, one who rules in virtue of wealth. When they, the tyrants of the earth, who lived delicately with her, rejoicing in her sins, the plutocrats and ..."

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