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plutocrat

nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans spoken

Other forms: plutocrats

A plutocrat is somebody whose power comes from great wealth. Denounce a plutocrat.

The word is always hostile, and nobody has ever described themselves as one. A plutocrat differs from an aristocrat in that the money came first and the position followed.

Definitions of plutocrat

  1. 1nounplutocratSomebody whose power comes from great wealth.C2

    “The newspaper was owned by a plutocrat with strong opinions.”

plutocrat is a person.

Where it comes from

Greek ploutos, wealth, plus kratos, power, on the pattern of aristocrat.

  1. Ancient Greek

    πλοῦτος — wealth, riches

  2. English, today

    plutocrat

Built from

  • κράτος · Ancient Greek — power, might

From pluto- + -crat, after plutocracy, from Ancient Greek πλοῦτος (“wealth, riches”) + κράτος (“power, might”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

plutocrat in the wild

  • Brad Majors finds himself imprisoned in the local mental hospital, while his wife Janet becomes the pet project of Farley Flavors, the local plutocrat.

    Shock Treatment

  • Joseph Armagh befriends a Lebanese immigrant, and both are taken under the tutelage of an American plutocrat.

    Captains and the Kings

  • Isnardo Guarco was an Italian politician, mercenary leader, plutocrat, and served as Doge of Genoa for one week.

    Isnardo Guarco

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.