What is the meaning?
2006-11-04 01:41:51 · 6 answers · asked by Ali K 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Elite means one of a special group of people, above the average, of a better class (ugh!).
2006-11-04 01:45:29 · answer #1 · answered by Holly R 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1) A group or class of persons or a member of such a group or class, enjoying superior intellectual, social, or economic status:
Example of its use in a sentence: “In addition to notions of social equality there was much emphasis on the role of elites and of heroes within them” (Times Literary Supplement)
2) The best or most skilled members of a group: the football team's elite.
3) A size of type on a typewriter, equal to 12 characters per linear inch.
2006-11-04 09:46:48 · answer #2 · answered by dontknow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons. OR..... Representing the most choice or select; best: (example: an elite group of authors)
2006-11-04 09:46:05 · answer #3 · answered by newmum06 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The priviledged best, the top of the heap, cream of the crop, the better trained and outfitted.
2006-11-04 09:46:26 · answer #4 · answered by The Mystic One 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check here for detailed descriptions:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/elite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite
In short:
In general speech, it mostly means the richest people, the most powerfull people (in your city, country or in the world).
2006-11-04 09:47:17 · answer #5 · answered by r_u_bn 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the priviledged, the rich, the people of high social status
2006-11-04 11:09:54 · answer #6 · answered by Sapph 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋