: a social class occupying a position above the middle class and having the highest status in a society
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Adjective
upper-class boys who had an entrenched sense of entitlement
Noun
a popular pastime among the upper classes
a member of the upper class
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Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 18 Oct. 2024
Mediumship, the mechanism of spirit communication, happened inside of middle- and upper-class homes, a collision of the public and private spheres.
—Marissa C. Rhodes / Made By History, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
Marissa C. Rhodes / Made By History, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
The grandeur of the buildings reflects the historic wealth of these villages, where two rare goods vital to the upper class – silk and nitre (for use in gunpowder) – were produced for centuries.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 6 Oct. 2024
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Adjective
Salons were musical and intellectual and would have had performers and dancers and singers and actors, and that’s very different from (Alfredo’s) tight middle- and upper-class world.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 18 Oct. 2024
Mediumship, the mechanism of spirit communication, happened inside of middle- and upper-class homes, a collision of the public and private spheres.
—Marissa C. Rhodes / Made By History, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
Noun
More than half of the community’s founding pioneers were women, most of whom were typical upper class, 19th-century wives and mothers.
—Marissa C. Rhodes / Made By History, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
The grandeur of the buildings reflects the historic wealth of these villages, where two rare goods vital to the upper class – silk and nitre (for use in gunpowder) – were produced for centuries.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 6 Oct. 2024
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“Upper-class.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/upper-class. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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