Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective same as
low-class . Contrasted withmiddle-class andupper-class .
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- adjective Not of the elite, of the peasantry or working-class.
- adjective Unrefined.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the social class lowest in the social hierarchy
- adjective occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society
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Examples
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If he was in a typical lower-class eighteenth-century American urban tavern, he would have seen white men and black men sitting together and drumming their fingers to the music on long wooden tables.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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A line drawing of a typical lower-class tavern in an early American city.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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These groups targeted gambling houses, brothels, dance halls, and lower-class taverns.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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We also find some evidence that upward bridging is more common among religiously involved lower-class Americans, but that pattern is much less robust.45
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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If it was one of the lower-class establishments on Walnut Street, the kind of place where most Philadelphians went, before he reached the front door, Adams would have heard white men fiddling Irish reels and black men pounding out driving African rhythms on hand drums, rattles, and wooden blocks.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Though lower-class Americans continued to fill taverns, the class of men who led the Revolution were undergoing a radical self-reformation.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Slate called them a group of "tough guys, skanks, soccer hooligans, lower-class unsophicates, and cheesy celebrities".
Heba el Habashy and Charles LaCalle: The Burberry Revolution Heba el Habashy 2011
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Slate called them a group of "tough guys, skanks, soccer hooligans, lower-class unsophicates, and cheesy celebrities".
Heba el Habashy and Charles LaCalle: The Burberry Revolution Heba el Habashy 2011
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Slate called them a group of "tough guys, skanks, soccer hooligans, lower-class unsophicates, and cheesy celebrities".
Heba el Habashy and Charles LaCalle: The Burberry Revolution Heba el Habashy 2011
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I worked and lived among lower-class people as a young adult, disguising myself as someone who really cared about them.
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