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Meanings of upper-class in English

Occupying the highest socioeconomic position in a society.

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Usage of upper-class in English
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He guessed she came from a good home, a middle-to upper-class family.
The soul catcher
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Labor members would pull in one direction, and upper-class members in another.
Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics
3
The disdain for upper-class society would have been recognised at the time.
The Irish Times
4
The archangels and the upper-class patriarchs wear a finer thing than that.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
5
Tells about officers and the general staff, most of whom are upper-class.
The new yorker
6
Sometimes extremely upper-class people -some -have a sort of reticence.
Radio NZ
7
He talks gentleman-to-gentleman with his upper-class customers and patronizingly to the bums.
One night stands & lost weekends
8
A lot of upper-class Pakistanis use English as their second language.
The good son: a novel
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Working-class men often think that middle-class and upper-class men are unmanly or undeserving.
The Guardian
10
Only 1 percent of today's middle- and upper-class Whites can say the same.
Ebony
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But there wasn't any question of her being anything but upper-class.
Divide and Rule
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The magter, the upper-class lords of Dis, are the direct opposite.
Planet of the Damned
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He finds upper-class hedonism particularly rebarbative and illustrates this with a chilling anecdote.
The Guardian
14
Born in Paris in 1908, Dominique was raised in an upper-class Protestant family.
The new yorker
15
Perhaps there are upper-class Jews but I'm not talking about them.
White Hunter, Black Heart
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He is a type of the upper-class young Englishman, over-sanguine and entirely undisciplined.
The Great Impersonation
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