elite
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
elite /eɪˈliːt, ɪ-/ (also élite)
▶noun
- 1 a group of people considered to be superior in a society or organization.
- 2 a size of letter in typewriting, with 12 characters to the inch (about 4.7 to the centimetre).
– origin C18: from Fr. élite ‘selection, choice’.
'elite' also found in these Oxford entries:
elitism
- Four Hundred
- leetspeak
- plutocracy
- punditocracy
- SEAL
- select
- SWAT team
- technocracy
- white-shoe
