UPPER-CLASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does upper-class mean? 

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

1. occupying the highest socioeconomic position in a society

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPPER-CLASS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Occupying the highest socioeconomic position in a society

Similar:

quality (of high social status)

propertied; property-owning (owning land or securities as a principal source of revenue)

u ((chiefly British) of or appropriate to the upper classes especially in language use)

tweedy ((of country gentry) informal, clannish and outdoorsy)

wellborn (of good or upper-class lineage)

Attribute:

position; status (the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society)

Antonym:

lower-class (occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society)

middle-class (occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy)