Definition: 1. A group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status. 2. Selected as the best.
Use 'elite' in a sentence:
1. The popular, old-fashioned Frost and the elite, modern Frost—these roles point to a division in the audiences for poetry that emerges clearly in this period.
2. Long-distance trade in obsidian probably gave the elite residents of Teotihuacán access to a wide variety of exotic good, as well as a relatively prosperous life.
3. Over the next five years, the group helps the students get into other elite summer math programs, high-performing high schools, and eventually college.
4. So did Winston Churchill, who almost failed out of Harrow, an elite British school.
5. It is not just readers who are challenging the media elite.
6. It's almost unheard of in France for a top politician not to come from the social elite.
7. At the same time, perhaps inevitably, the humanities—while still popular in elite colleges and universities—have experienced a significant decline.
8. "Instead of intimate shops catering to a knowledgeable elite," these were stores "anyone could enter, regardless of class or background".
9. Model workers are elites of the Chinese nation, role models for the people and heroes of the republic.
10. The growing power of the elite, who controlled the economy, would give them the means to physically coerce people to move to Teotihuacán and serve as additions to the labor force.
11. It must be said that the defence minister is a little bit more dovish than other people in the ruling elite.
12. Many are made to be put in the tombs of the elite in order to serve the tomb owners in the afterlife.
13. They are the elite society, playing significant roles in social economic development as well as in trendsetting.
14. Although vastly popular during its time, much nineteenth-century women's fiction in the United States went unread by the twentieth-century educated elite, who were taught to ignore it as didactic.
15. Still, Jones represents a small percentage of first-generation students who are able to gain entry into more elite universities, which are often known for robust financial aid packages and remarkably high graduation rates for first-generation students.
16. The army was controlled by a small elite of officers.
17. Many top firms will not even look at applications from those who lack an upper-second class degree, from an elite university.
18. More irrigation works would have to be built to feed the growing population, and this resulted in more power and wealth for the elite.
19. They try to develop their skills through close supervision and organized activities, and teach children to question authority figures and navigate elite institutions.
20. There are also dozens of summer camps—many attached to universities—that aim to prepare elite math students.
21. Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years.
22. We have a political elite in this country.
23. Only the educational elite go ( goes) to Oxford or cambridge.
24. If elite schools have relaxed standards, the practice is almost surely widespread.
25. Elite swimmers tend to be born with certain advantages, such as superefficient metabolisms.
26. The issue of the stresses felt by students in elite school districts has gained attention in recent years as schools in places like Newton, Massachusetts, and Palo Alto have reported a number of suicides.
27. Many top firms will not even look at applications from those who lack a 2.1, i.e., an upper-second class degree, from an elite university.
28. Elite mercenaries, originally from Aragon, armed with javelins and light armour.
29. Her plump figure indicates that she is among North Korea's privileged elite.
30. Some critics blame affirmative action—students admitted with lower test scores and grades from shaky high schools often struggle at elite schools.
31. As a member of an elite army hit squad, the army would send us out to do their dirty work for them.
32. The elites are by their nature a factor contributing to underdevelopment.
33. Except for elite schools, admission standards are low.
34. In order to ensure that elite women have more such opportunities, they have proposed imposing government quotas.
35. Recruiters circle elite universities like vulturous.
36. Mainstream Culture, Elite Culture and Mass Culture in Modern China.
37. Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years, and in light of last summer's U.S. win at the International Math Olympiad ( IMO)---the first for an American team in more than two decades — the trend is likely to continue.
38. There are also dozens of summer camps — many attached to universities — that aim to prepare elite math students.
39. "The reality of it is that a lot of low-income kids could be going to elite universities on a full ride scholarship and don't even realize it."
40. In order to understand ancient Egyptian art, it is vital to know as much as possible of the elite Egyptians' view of the world and the functions and contexts of the art produced for them.
41. They were likely hired by one of the city's elite, perhaps a Roman official wanted Pompeii-like interior to remind him of home.
42. It was an elite that believed its task was to enlighten the multitude.
43. The whole world has moved away from elite education in universities to meet the needs of mass education.
44. Norway's adoption of a nationwide corporate gender quota has led to the underestimation of elite women's role.
45. A tiny, educated elite profited from the misery of their two million fellow countrymen.
46. With his letter, Aderhold inserted West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District into a national discussion about the intense focus on achievement at elite schools, and whether it has gone too far.
47. This appeal to the middle class convinced the elite that photographs would foster a desire for realism instead of idealism.
48. Dr Russel is creating an elite herd by cross-breeding goats from around the globe.
49. It was these conditions that allowed an elite to emerge, probably as an organizing class, and to sustain itself through the control of surplus crops.
50. They were, by and large, a very wealthy, privileged elite.
51. In these countries, only the elite can afford an education for their children.
52. Power is largely concentrated in the hands of a small elite.
53. "It's not only the selective and elite institutions that provide those opportunities for a small subset of this population," Rubinoff said, adding that a majority of first-generation undergraduates tend toward options such as online programs, two-year colleges, and commuter state schools.
54. Most European and Asian universities provide an elite service to a small number of people.
55. Public opinion is influenced by the small elite who control the media.
