upper class
noun
1 upper class
The class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy.
synonym: upper crust.
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upper classes
noun
Roget 875:
nobility,
rank,
condition,
distinction,
optimacy†,
blood,
pur sang [Fr.],
birth,
high descent,
order;
quality,
gentility;
blue blood of Castile;
ancien regime [Fr.].
high life,
haute monde [Fr.];
upper classes,
upper ten thousand;
the four hundred [U.S.];
elite,
aristocracy,
great folks;
fashionable world
etc.
(fashion)
852.
peer,
peerage;
house of lords,
house of peers;
lords,
lords temporal and spiritual;
noblesse;
noble,
nobleman;
lord,
lordling†;
grandee,
magnifico [Lat.],
hidalgo;
daimio [Jap.],
daimyo [Jap.],
samurai [Jap.],
shizoku [Jap.];
don,
donship†;
aristocrat,
swell,
three-tailed bashaw†;
gentleman,
squire,
squireen†,
patrician,
laureate.
gentry,
gentlefolk;
squirarchy [Slang],
better sort magnates,
primates,
optimates†;
pantisocracy†.
king
etc.
(master)
745;
atheling†;
prince,
duke;
marquis,
marquisate†;
earl,
viscount,
baron,
thane,
banneret†;
baronet,
baronetcy†;
knight,
knighthood;
count,
armiger†,
laird;
signior†,
seignior;
esquire,
boyar,
margrave,
vavasour†;
emir,
ameer†,
scherif†,
sharif,
effendi,
wali;
sahib;
chevalier,
maharaja,
nawab,
palsgrave†,
pasha,
rajah,
waldgrave†.
princess,
begum†,
duchess,
marchioness;
countess
&c.;
lady,
dame;
memsahib;
Do$a,
maharani,
rani.
personage of distinction,
man of distinction,
personage of rank,
man of rank,
personage of mark,
man of mark;
notables,
notabilities;
celebrity,
bigwig,
magnate,
great man,
star,
superstar;
big bug;
big gun,
great gun;
gilded rooster [U.S.];
magni nominis umbra [Lat.]
[Lucan];
every inch a king"
[Lear].
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