Synonyms for upper class
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1. upper classnoun

   Synonyms:
   the quality, the Quality

2. upper classnoun

   those people at the top of a social hierarchy

   Synonyms:
   the quality, the Quality

3. upper classnoun

   the aristocracy

   Synonyms:
   the Quality, the quality

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1. upper class, upper crustadjective

   the class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy

   Synonyms:
   upper crust

   Antonyms:
   non-U, upper-middle-class, bourgeois, low-class, propertyless, materialistic, middle-class, blue-collar, lower-class, working-class, conservative, upper-lower-class, lower-middle-class, proletarian, wage-earning

2. upper-classadjective

   occupying the highest socioeconomic position in a society

   Antonyms:
   non-U, blue-collar, upper-middle-class, middle-class, materialistic, conservative, lower-class, proletarian, working-class, bourgeois, low-class, propertyless, lower-middle-class, wage-earning, upper-lower-class

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1. Phil Hill:

   It’s not unusual for a middle class, upper class family with soccer kids to be spending $20, $30, $40,000 a year to keep them all playing at the high level, the median household income of most kids we work with is $26,000. I mean you can do the math. It just locks them out.

2. Economist Brian Jackson:

   Many large malls (and residential construction) in China.... are all hoping to target one demographic -- the upper class, what is needed to succeed is retail space that caters to (the much larger) bulk of middle-class Chinese.

3. Michael Lind:

   The Southern upper class never really cared what color the serfs were.

4. Paul Fussell:

   If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it.

5. John Peet:

   Defining consultancy is a bit like defining the upper class every possible candidate draws the line just below himself.