Usually means: Select group with superior status.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. elite: Merriam-Webster
  2. elite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. elite: Collins English Dictionary
  4. elite: Vocabulary.com
  5. Elite, elite: Wordnik
  6. elite: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. elite: Wiktionary
  8. elite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. elite: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. 'Elite, Elite, elite: Dictionary.com
  11. elite: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. elite: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Elite (Halo), Elite (TV series), Elite (album), Elite (computer game), Elite (disambiguation), Elite (game), Elite (producer), Elite (record producer), Elite (season 2), Elite (song), Elite (video game), Elite, The Elite (DC Comics), The Elite (novel), The Elite (professional wrestling), The Elite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Elite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. elite: Rhymezone
  16. Elite (f), elite, elite (de), lite, lite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. elite: FreeDictionary.org
  18. elite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. elite: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. elite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  21. elite: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Elite (sociology), elite: Legal dictionary

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. elite: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. elite: Netlingo
  3. elite: CCI Computer
  4. Elite: Game Dictionary
  5. elite: Hacking Lexicon
  6. Elite (sociology), elite: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ELITE, Elite (sociology): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. ELITE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Elite (From Halo), Elite (conservative), Elite (liberal), elite: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Elite: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.
adjective:  Representing the choicest or most select of a group.
noun:  A special group or social class of people who have a superior social or economic status and attendant power, advantages, or privileges in society; a member of such a group.
noun:  Someone who is among the best at a certain task.
noun:  (typography) A typeface with 12 characters per inch.

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