noun
people having the same social, economic, or educational status (Freq. 5)
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the working class
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an emerging professional class
• Syn: ↑class, ↑stratum, ↑socio-economic class
• Hypernyms: ↑people
• Hyponyms:
↑world, ↑domain, ↑age class, ↑agriculture, ↑brotherhood, ↑fraternity, ↑sodality, ↑estate of the realm, ↑estate, ↑the three estates, ↑labor, ↑labour, ↑working class, ↑proletariat, ↑lower class, ↑underclass, ↑middle class, ↑bourgeoisie, ↑booboisie, ↑commonalty, ↑commonality, ↑commons, ↑peasantry, ↑demimonde, ↑underworld, ↑yeomanry, ↑caste, ↑upper class, ↑upper crust, ↑ninja, ↑firing line, ↑immigrant class, ↑center, ↑old school, ↑market, ↑craft, ↑trade, ↑womanhood, ↑woman, ↑fair sex
• Member Holonyms: ↑class structure
• Part Holonyms: ↑society
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Sociol.
a broad group in society having common economic, cultural, or political status.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.