social class

American  

noun

Sociology.

social classes plural

1. a broad group in society having common economic, cultural, or political status.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• social classes
  plural

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social class

But in a number of African countries, access to it is still reserved for a certain social class, said Ablaye Seck, an energy efficiency expert in Senegal.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

Not that Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff’s doomed-by-their-own-hands love affair ever needed the exposure; Brontë’s themes of obsession, revenge, social class and the supernatural are still analyzed in high school English classes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026

But people experience their lives — and their history within the world — differently depending on a host of factors, including sex, race, religion, social class, educational status and where they were born.

From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2025

He grew up seeing work as a way to catapult himself into a new social class.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025

So I fall back on the support networks of my real-life social class, call the dermatologist I know in Key West, and bludgeon him into prescribing something sight unseen.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich