Meanings of lower stratum in English

The Samaritans were a despised lower stratum of the population of Palestine.

Marius tapped a lower stratum, and allowed the Capite Censi to volunteer.

This class belongs to a lower stratum; they have graduated downward.

In America, except in the regions where the negro abounds, there is no lower stratum.

Was it the sudden upcropping of some lower stratum in my nature- abrutalprimitive instinct suddenly asserting itself?

By him Harold was let into those secrets of the lower stratum of society he had longed to understand.

As our globe sweeps through it, the lower stratum of air naturally sinks down into the valleys and like depressions.

Though the lower stratum of air in the Dog's Grotto had been highly mephitic, the atmosphere here was more stifling still.

Jefferson thought more of men than of their surroundings, and thus became popular with ordinary people in a lower stratum of social life.

The lower stratum of air is warmed by the earth and by objects which have been warmed by radiated heat from the sun.

It was the lower stratum of the labor-world-hardphysical labor, irregular work, and, on the whole, undignified treatment by the men set over them.

Maria, in these last months, saw very little of Gladys, who had sunken entirely into the lower stratum of society in which she belonged.

On such occasions it appeared that the gale was impelled to blow straight out from the plateau slopes over a lower stratum of dead-air.

On our side the plateau showed a huge slip of red volcanic earth, with a lower stratum parallel to it of baked brown rock.

Then came a few guests belonging to a lower stratum of society-peoplewho, like the Epanchins themselves, moved only occasionally in this exalted sphere.

As a general rule, the heights in Rome were occupied by the better class of residents, and the hollows by the lower stratum of population.