#elite  a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status
  supertype:  upper_class__upperclas__upper_crust__uppercrust  the class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy
  subtype:  elect__chosen  an exclusive group of people: "one of the elect who have power inside the government"
  subtype:  cream.elite  the best people or things in a group; "the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War"
  subtype:  intelligentsia__clerisy  an educated and intellectual elite
     subtype:  literati  the literary intelligentsia
  subtype:  high_society__society__beau_monde__smart_set__bon_ton  the fashionable elite
  subtype:  few.elite  a small elite group; "it was designed for the discriminating few"
  subtype:  aristocracy  a privileged class holding hereditary titles
     subtype:  noblesse  members of the nobility (especially of the French nobility)
     subtype:  peerage__baronage  the peers of a kingdom considered as a group
     subtype:  second_estate__lords_temporal__lordstemporal  the second estate of the realm: the nobility (especially British nobility) of the rank of duke or marquess or earl or viscount or baron
     subtype:  knighthood  aristocrats holding the rank of knight
     subtype:  samurai  feudal Japanese military aristocracy
     subtype:  Ferdinand_and_Isabella  joint monarchs of Spain; Ferdinand V and Isabella I
     subtype:  William_and_Mary  joint monarchs of England; William III and Mary II

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