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nouna group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status
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- few a small elite group
- david (Old Testament) the 2nd king of the Israelites; as a young shepherd he fought Goliath (a giant Philistine warrior) and killed him by hitting him in the head with a stone flung from a sling; he united Israel with Jerusalem as its capital; many of the Psalms are attributed to David (circa 1000-962 BC)
- w a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite
- society the fashionable elite
- numbers the fourth book of the Old Testament; contains a record of the number of Israelites who followed Moses out of Egypt
- hunt Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
- folk a social division of (usually preliterate) people
- aaron (Old Testament) elder brother of Moses and first high priest of the Israelites; created the golden calf
- ruth a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died
- tribe a social division of (usually preliterate) people