Synonyms for aristocracy

nobility, privileged class, peerage, patriciate, House of Lords, superior group, ruling class, noblemen, nobles, the elite, gentry, high society, upper class(es), persons of rank, patricians, optimates, gentility, fashionable world, class of hereditary nobility, body of nobles, royalty, beau monde, haut monde, pur sang, noblesse (all French), the Quality*, the upper ten*, high livers*, the four hundred*, the upper crust*, the social register*, the jet set*, the blue book crowd*; see also society 3.

Antonyms people*, working class, peasantry.