HIGH-CLASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high-class mean? 

• HIGH-CLASS (adjective)
  The adjective HIGH-CLASS has 1 sense:

1. pretentiously elegant

  Familiarity information: HIGH-CLASS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGH-CLASS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pretentiously elegant

Synonyms:

high-class; high-toned

Context example:

a high-toned restaurant

Similar:

elegant (refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style)

 Context examples 

Moriarty supplied him liberally with money, and used him only in one or two very high-class jobs, which no ordinary criminal could have undertaken.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And yet, so strong is habit, that, even in this extremity of emotion he assumed the deferential air of the high-class valet, and his sentences formed themselves in the sonorous fashion which had struck my attention upon that first day when the curricle of my uncle had stopped outside my father’s door.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)