English Dictionary |
CLASS FEELING
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
IPA (US): |
Dictionary entry overview: What does class feeling mean?
• CLASS FEELING (noun)
The noun CLASS FEELING has 1 sense:
1. feelings of envy and resentment of one social or economic class for toward another
Familiarity information: CLASS FEELING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feelings of envy and resentment of one social or economic class for toward another
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("class feeling" is a kind of...):
enmity; hostility; ill will (the feeling of a hostile person)
Context examples
Also, while aware that poverty was anything but delectable, she had a comfortable middle-class feeling that poverty was salutary, that it was a sharp spur that urged on to success all men who were not degraded and hopeless drudges.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Learn English with... Proverbs |
"If it does not get cloudy, it will not get clear." (Albanian proverb)
"For the sake of the flowers, the weeds are watered." (Arabic proverb)
"The pen is mightier than the sword." (Dutch proverb)