Associations to the word «Oligarch»

Wiktionary

OLIGARCH, noun. A member of an oligarchy, someone who is part of a small group that runs a country.
OLIGARCH, noun. (chiefly Russia) A very rich person, particularly with political power; a plutocrat.
OLIGARCH, noun. (cosmogony) A protoplanet formed during oligarchic accretion.

Dictionary definition

OLIGARCH, noun. One of the rulers in an oligarchy.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope