ADJECTIVE | all | upper-class | occupying the highest socioeconomic position in a society |
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Meaning | Occupying the highest socioeconomic position in a society. | |
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Attribute of | status, position | The relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society |
Narrower | propertied, property-owning | owning land or securities as a principal source of revenue |
quality | Of high social status | |
tweedy | (of country gentry) informal, clannish and outdoorsy | |
u | (chiefly British) of or appropriate to the upper classes especially in language / language use | |
wellborn | Of good or upper-class lineage | |
Opposite | lower-class, low-class | Occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society |
middle-class | Occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy | |
Catalan | de classe alta |
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