貴族
きぞく
noble, aristocrat
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Examples
貴族の暮らしを描いた物語だ。
きぞくのくらしをえがいたものがたりだ。
It's a story depicting aristocratic life.
平安時代の貴族は和歌をよく詠んだ。
へいあんじだいのきぞくはわかをよくよんだ。
Nobles of the Heian period often composed poems.
彼の話し方はどこか貴族的だ。
かれのはなしかたはどこかきぞくてきだ。
There is something aristocratic about the way he speaks.
Common patterns
- 貴族の生活
- aristocratic life
- 貴族社会
- aristocratic society
- 貴族出身
- of noble birth
Memory tip
貴族 covers both the Heian court nobility and European aristocrats. The word Japanese sets against it is 庶民, "ordinary people".
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