Antonyms for lower-class

Grammar : Adj, noun

Spell : loh-er-klas, -klahs

Phonetic Transcription : ˈloʊ ərˈklæs, -ˈklɑs

Definition of lower-class

As in blue-collar : adj of manual workers
As in baseborn : adj lowly
As in lower class : noun working people with least money

Example sentences :

Swallowed in the vortex of lower-class life of Paris—dead, probably.
Extract from : « The White Lie » by William Le Queux

But it resembled some lower-class citizen's family carryall.
Extract from : « Final Weapon » by Everett B. Cole

The photoplays have done something to reunite the lower-class families.
Extract from : « The Art Of The Moving Picture » by Vachel Lindsay

It is only the lower-class women who sleep on the house-tops.
Extract from : « Rudyard Kipling » by John Palmer

Josephina is Finn and lower-class with a foreign look, and she is forty-five and looks sixty and is twelve years out of Finland.
Extract from : « I, Mary MacLane » by Mary MacLane

This is generally occupied by some lower-class deity, who is just beginning to be considered respectable.
Extract from : « The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. I (of 2) » by W. Crooke

It is undoubtedly true that a large portion of the lower-class Irish consider it no disgrace to beg from an American.
Extract from : « The Charm of Ireland » by Burton Egbert Stevenson

He was good-looking, but of a more serious cast of features than is common with the lower-class Irish.
Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever

The State must needs go on seeking conquest, by reason alike of the lower-class and the upper-class problem.
Extract from : « The Evolution of States » by J. M. Robertson

He knew many of the older stories of the country, the Missions, the Indians, and the lower-class Mexicans.
Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old San Francisco » by Amanda Minnie Douglas

Synonyms for lower-class

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