Word Meanings - ELITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A choice or select body; the flower; as, the élite of society.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ELITE)

• Elect
• Elite
• choice
• accepted
• chosen

Related words: (words related to ELITE)

• ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
  Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• CHOICE
  1. Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable. My choicest hours of life are lost. Swift. 2. Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money. 3. Selected
• ELECTROTYPER
  One who electrotypes.
• ELECTREPETER
  An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.
• ELECTRO-DYNAMIC; ELECTRO-DYNAMICAL
  Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.
• ELECTRO-CAPILLARITY
  The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
• ELECTRONIC
  Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
• ELECTRO-BIOLOGIST
  One versed in electro-biology.
• CHOICELY
  1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.
• ELECTORATE
  1. The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire. 2. The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. The middle-class electorate
• ELECTROLOGY
  That branch of physical science which treats of the phenomena of electricity and its properties.
• ELECTRICIAN
  An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
• ELECTRO-CHRONOGRAPH
  An instrument for obtaining an accurate record of the time at which any observed phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph.
• ELECTROTYPE
  A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively. Note: The face of an electrotype consists of a shell of copper, silver, or the like, produced by the action
• ACCEPTOR
  One who accepts; specifically ,
• ELECTRO-GILDING
  The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity.
• ELECTRO-POLAR
  Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor.
• ELECTROTONIZE
  To cause or produce electrotonus.
• ELECTRE; ELECTER
  1. Amber. See Electrum. 2. A metallic substance compounded of gold and silver; an alloy. Wyclif.
• ANELECTRIC
  Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.
• ACCEPT
  To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange. Bouvier. 6. In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; bill , to agree to pay it when due. -- To accept service , to agree that a writ or
• DELITESCENT
  Lying hid; concealed.
• ROSELITE
  A hydrous arsenite of cobalt, occuring in small red crystals, allied to erythrite.
• PYROELECTRICITY
  Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.