elite
i leet
- n a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status
- s selected as the best
elite colleges
- An ordinary Frenchman trying to squeeze into the tiny French intellectual elite is like Charles de Gaulle trying to squeeze into the back seat of a baby Renault.
- House Speaker Newt Gingrich uses the term elite as an all-purpose epithet, meaning little more than someone or something he doesn't like.
- January's spontaneous general strike had turned out President Elie Lescot, but not Haiti's ruling mulatto elite.