noun
1.
Synonyms: best , choice, cream, fat, flower, pick, pride, prime, prize, top
Related Word: elect, pink, select; ||hoi polloi
Idioms: cream of the crop, crème de la crème, pick of the bunch
2.
Synonyms: aristocracy , aristoi, flower, gentility, gentry, optimacy, quality, society, upper class, upper crust
Related Word: drawing rooms; Four Hundred; beautiful people, jet set, smart set
Idioms: high society, horsey set
Contrasted words: hoi polloi, (the) masses, mob, peasantry, people, proletariat, rabble