lower class
noun
1 lower class
The social class lowest in the social hierarchy.
synonym: underclass.
Dutch: lompenproletariaat, onderklasse
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lower classes
noun
Roget 876:
commonalty,
democracy;
obscurity;
low condition,
low life,
low society,
low company;
bourgeoisie;
mass of the people,
mass of society;
Brown Jones and Robinson;
lower classes,
humbler classes,
humbler orders;
vulgar herd,
common herd;
rank and file,
hoc genus omne [Lat.];
the many,
the general,
the crowd,
the people,
the populace,
the multitude,
the million,
the masses,
the mobility,
the peasantry;
king Mob;
proletariat;
fruges consumere nati [Lat.],
demos,
hoi polloi [Gr.],
great unwashed;
man in the street.
mob;
rabble,
rabble rout;
chaff,
rout,
horde,
canaille;
scum of the people,
residuum of the people,
dregs of the people,
dregs of society;
swinish multitude,
foex populi†;
trash;
profanum vulgus [Lat.],
ignobile vulgus [Lat.];
vermin,
riffraff,
ragtag and bobtail;
small fry.
commoner,
one of the people,
democrat,
plebeian,
republican,
proletary†,
proletaire†,
roturier†,
Mr.
Snooks,
bourgeois,
epicier [Fr.],
Philistine,
cockney;
grisette†,
demimonde.
peasant,
countryman,
boor,
carle†,
churl;
villain,
villein;
terrae filius [Lat.],
son of the land;
serf,
kern†,
tyke,
tike,
chuff†,
ryot†,
fellah;
longshoreman;
swain,
clown,
hind;
clod,
clodhopper;
hobnail,
yokel,
bog-trotter,
bumpkin;
plowman,
plowboy†;
rustic,
hayseed [Slang],
lunkhead [U.S.],
chaw-bacon [Slang],
tiller of the soil;
hewers of wood and drawers of water,
groundling†;
gaffer,
loon,
put,
cub,
Tony Lumpkin†,
looby†,
rube [U.S.],
lout,
underling;
gamin;
rough;
pot-wallopper†,
slubberdegullion†;
vulgar fellow,
low fellow;
cad,
curmudgeon.
upstart,
parvenu,
skipjack†;
nobody,
nobody one knows;
hesterni quirites [Lat.],
pessoribus orti [Lat.];
bourgeois gentilhomme [Fr.],
novus homo [Lat.],
snob,
gent,
mushroom,
no one knows who,
adventurer;
man of straw.
beggar,
gaberlunzie†,
muckworm†,
mudlark†,
sans culotte,
raff†,
tatterdemalion,
caitiff,
ragamuffin,
Pariah,
outcast of society,
tramp,
vagabond,
bezonian†,
panhandler [Slang],
sundowner†,
chiffonnier,
Cinderella,
cinderwench†,
scrub,
jade;
gossoon†.
Goth,
Vandal,
Hottentot,
Zulu,
savage,
barbarian,
Yahoo;
unlicked cub†,
rough diamond†.
barbarousness,
barbarism;
boeotia.
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