单词 | upper-class |
释义 | upper-class (once / 16191 pages) adj WORD FAMILY upper-class USAGE EXAMPLESUpper-class whites, with an appreciation for the economic opportunities, stayed and embraced Miami as the capital of Latin America. Los Angeles Times(Nov 27, 2016) Luther advocated moderate emancipation for women, but of the show’s 10 portraits, only one is female — an upper-class wife rendered by Batholomäus Bruyn the Elder. Los Angeles Times(Nov 21, 2016) In the fourth century, he and his family were among the many upper-class northerners who relocated south to Nanjing. New York Times(Nov 17, 2016) adj occupying the highest socioeconomic position in a society Syn|Ant quality of high social status propertied, property-owningowning land or securities as a principal source of revenue u(chiefly British) of or appropriate to the upper classes especially in language use tweedy(of country gentry) informal, clannish and outdoorsy wellbornof good or upper-class lineage low-class, lower-class occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society middle-classoccupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy non-Unot characteristic of the upper classes especially in language use proletarianbelonging to or characteristic of the proletariat blue-collar, propertyless, wage-earning, working-classof those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers upper-lower-classoccupying the upper part of the lower class bourgeoisbelonging to the middle class bourgeois, conservative, materialisticconforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class lower-middle-classoccupying the lower part of the middle socioeconomic range in a society upper-middle-classoccupying the upper part of the middle socioeconomic range in a society lowbornof humble birth or origins |
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