aristocracy definition
Aristocracy (Greek á¼ÏÎ¹ÏÏÎ¿ÎºÏÎ±ÏÎ¯Î± aristokratia, aristokratÃ­a from á¼ÏÎ¹ÏÏÎ¿Ï aristos, excellent and ÎºÏÎ¬ÏÎ¿Ï kratos) power is a form of government that places power in the hands of a, small privileged ruling. Class the term derives from The greek, aristokratia meaning rule of the. bestn his 1651 book Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes describes an aristocracy as a commonwealth in which the representative of the citizens is an assembly by part. It is a system in which only a small part of the population represents the government.