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Meanings of upper-class in English

Occupying the highest socioeconomic position in a society.

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Examples for "lower-class"
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This kind of interaction simply doesn't happen with lower-class children, Lareau says.
Outliers: the story of success
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The lower-class man is proud of his connection with the great family.
A Woman's Impression of the Philippines
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She knew that being confident and dressing in such finery intimidated lower-class men.
The hunchback assignments
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Lawrence must also have been disoriented by this sudden immersion into lower-class life.
Hero: the life and legend of lawrence of arabia
5
The lower-class neighbours had created floral arches that showed the way to the church.
Drood: a novel
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In middle-class American homes today, you will likely find several networked PCs.
Reuters
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Reygadas was born 31 years ago to a middle-class Mexico City family.
The Guardian
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Southeast Asia also offers something Japan cannot: a growing, increasingly middle-class population.
Reuters
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Some estimates put the number of middle-class Indians at about 300 million.
Reuters
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The members of the middle-class opposition were arrested; most have been released.
The new yorker
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
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The disdain for upper-class society would have been recognised at the time.
The Irish Times
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The archangels and the upper-class patriarchs wear a finer thing than that.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
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Tells about officers and the general staff, most of whom are upper-class.
The new yorker
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Sometimes extremely upper-class people -some -have a sort of reticence.
Radio NZ
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He talks gentleman-to-gentleman with his upper-class customers and patronizingly to the bums.
One night stands & lost weekends
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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
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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
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Born in Paris in 1908, Dominique was raised in an upper-class Protestant family.
The new yorker
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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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