Noun | 1. | social class - people having the same social, economic, or educational status; 'the working class'; 'an emerging professional class' socio-economic class, stratum, class people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; 'old people'; 'there were at least 200 people in the audience' world, domain - people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest; 'the Western world' society - an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization agriculture - the class of people engaged in growing food sodality, brotherhood, fraternity - people engaged in a particular occupation; 'the medical fraternity' estate of the realm, the three estates, estate - a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights labor, labour, proletariat, working class - a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; 'there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field' lower class, underclass - the social class lowest in the social hierarchy bourgeoisie, middle class - the social class between the lower and upper classes booboisie - class consisting of all those who are considered boobs commonality, commonalty, commons - a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank demimonde - a class of woman not considered respectable because of indiscreet or promiscuous behavior yeomanry - class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land caste - a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth caste - (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity class structure - the organization of classes within a society upper class, upper crust - the class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy ninja - a class of 14th century Japanese who were trained in martial arts and were hired for espionage and assassinations firing line - the most advanced and responsible group in an activity; 'the firing line is where the action is' immigrant class - recent immigrants who are lumped together as a class by their low socioeconomic status in spite of different cultural backgrounds old school - a class of people favoring traditional ideas market - the customers for a particular product or service; 'before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it' craft, trade - people who perform a particular kind of skilled work; 'he represented the craft of brewers'; 'as they say in the trade' fair sex, womanhood, woman - women as a class; 'it's an insult to American womanhood'; 'woman is the glory of creation'; 'the fair sex gathered on the veranda' |