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Meanings of social station in English

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posició social

Position in a social hierarchy.

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        Usage of social station in English
        1
        The difference in social station between her and her husband seemed unimportant now.
        The Mayor of Warwick
        2
        The envied social station may imply the swallowing of many rebuffs.
        A Handbook of Ethical Theory
        3
        The clothes told him instantly that the man was of high social station.
        Midnight
        4
        People have a pretty accurate way of measuring their social station.
        Vigorish
        5
        She knew him to be above her in social station.
        The Red Planet
        6
        Miss Hooper had social station, while Bradlaugh only had prospects.
        Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 / Little J...
        7
        By a Diamond, is figured a Man of social station and wealth or talents.
        The Square of Sevens: An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with...
        8
        Unsanitary cities incubated death and disease at every social station.
        The Disposable Male
        9
        An offer of marriage came to her from a man of means and social station.
        Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 / Little J...
        10
        His social station is improved-peopleshake hands with him and solicitously ask after his welfare.
        Love, Life & Work / Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Nat...
        11
        Neither wealth nor social station protected anyone.
        Reuters
        12
        Only their wealth, and their social station.
        The Christian: A Story
        13
        The Muse of Painting is a lady whose social station is not altogether recognised with us as yet.
        The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
        14
        In the sixties and even into the seventies, women of a certain social station would actually buy couture.
        Gunn's golden rules
        15
        She wanted luxury, magnificence, social station.
        The Financier: A Novel
        16
        The painting suggests that, regardless of social station, learning is Lincoln's key to a life of purpose and meaning.
        A. lincoln: a biography
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