elite's Usage Examples:

Here, between Ebal and Gerizim, Joshua made his last speech to the elders of the Israelites (Jos.

No allusions to Israelites in Egypt have yet been found on the monuments.

foreign deportees did, in fact, mingle with the local Israelite remnants.

transplanted many Paulicians from Germanicia, Doliche, Melitene, and Theodosiupolis (Erzerum), to Thrace, to defend the empire from Bulgarians and Sclavonians.

These are usually very limited offers, however, and may be limited to elite voyages such as world cruises, cruise ship relocation trips, and very exclusive, expensive cruise lines.

His inspiration may be traced in some measure to the Pre-Raphaelites and also to Blake, Shelley and Maeterlinck; but he found in his native Irish legend and life matter apt for his romantic and often elfin music, with its artful simplicities and unhackneyed cadences, and its elusive, inconclusive charm.

A huge car drawn by oxen, bearing the standard of the burgh, and carrying an altar with the host, this carroccio, like the ark of the Israelites, formed a rallying point in battle, and reminded the armed artisans that they had a city and a church to fight for.

Since the early years it has been a sort of state tribalism, limited to the ruling elite 's tribe, the Albu Nasir.

The Friars of the Blessed Virgin of Mount Carmel or Carmelites or Whitefriars came to London in 1241, and made their home on land between Fleet Street and the Thames given by Edward I.

It is taken, strangely enough, from an Israelite source, but the tone of the whole is quite dispassionate and objective.

It was in order to preserve the Israelites from errors and follies of this kind, and to prevent the possibility of such idolatry being established, that the dog was afterwards regarded with utter abhorrence amongst the Jews, and this feeling prevailed during the continuance of the Israelites in Palestine.

), would have no meaning to Israelites unless they had some connexion with and interest for contemporary life and thought.

Synonyms:

chosen, bon ton, beau monde, pick, technocrat, clerisy, elite group, high society, upper crust, elect, aristocracy, upper class, smart set, society, nobility, cream, intelligentsia, few,

Antonyms:

noble, dishonorableness, ignoble, more, no,