SOCIAL CLASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does social class mean? 

• SOCIAL CLASS (noun)
  The noun SOCIAL CLASS has 1 sense:

1. people having the same social, economic, or educational status

  Familiarity information: SOCIAL CLASS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOCIAL CLASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

People having the same social, economic, or educational status

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

class; social class; socio-economic class; stratum

Context example:

an emerging professional class

Hypernyms ("social class" is a kind of...):

people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "social class"):

underworld (the criminal class)

fair sex; woman; womanhood (women as a class)

craft; trade (people who perform a particular kind of skilled work)

market (the customers for a particular product or service)

old school (a class of people favoring traditional ideas)

center (politically moderate persons; centrists)

immigrant class (recent immigrants who are lumped together as a class by their low socioeconomic status in spite of different cultural backgrounds)

firing line (the most advanced and responsible group in an activity)

ninja (a class of 14th century Japanese who were trained in martial arts and were hired for espionage and assassinations)

upper class; upper crust (the class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy)

caste ((Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity)

caste (a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth)

yeomanry (class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land)

domain; world (people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest)

demimonde (a class of woman not considered respectable because of indiscreet or promiscuous behavior)

peasantry (the class of peasants)

commonality; commonalty; commons (a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank)

booboisie (class consisting of all those who are considered boobs)

bourgeoisie; middle class (the social class between the lower and upper classes)

lower class; underclass (the social class lowest in the social hierarchy)

labor; labour; proletariat; working class (a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages)

estate; estate of the realm; the three estates (a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights)

brotherhood; fraternity; sodality (people engaged in a particular occupation)

agriculture (the class of people engaged in growing food)

age class (people in the same age range)

Holonyms ("social class" is a part of...):

society (an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization)

Holonyms ("social class" is a member of...):

class structure (the organization of classes within a society)

 Context examples 

That is, even after you take people’s socioeconomic status into account (in this study’s case, education and social class), does a person’s residential environment still affect their mental health?

(Depression - men far more at risk than women in deprived areas, University of Cambridge)