Difference between Elite and Elect

What is the difference between Elite and Elect?

Elite as an adjective is of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician. while Elect as an adjective is who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.

Elite

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician. Representing the choicest or most select of a group

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A special group or social class of people which have a superior intellectual, social or economic status as, the elite of society. Someone who is among the best at certain task.

Example sentence: Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Elect

Part of speech: noun

Definition: In Calvinist theology, those foreordained to Heaven.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To choose or make a decision (to do something)To choose (a candidate) in an election

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.

Example sentence: For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

We hope you now know whether to use Elite or Elect in your sentence.

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