as in aristocratic
of high birth, rank, or station
upper-class boys who had an entrenched sense of entitlement
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as in aristocracy
the highest class in a society
a school founded to educate the children of the upper class
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Recent Examples of upper-class
Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025
But when Wilmet finally secures an invitation to Piers’s flat, she is received by Keith, a young man who models sweaters for knitting catalogues and has gone to great effort to lay out a tea worthy of his lover’s upper-class female friend.
—Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
Fiona Ward, Glamour, 31 Dec. 2025
So, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac, the upper class would take leftover food, goods, or money and put them in boxes to give out to the poor.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 24 Dec. 2025
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Adjective
Cassandra Freeman, Olly Sholotan, Coco Jones, Akira Akbar and Adrian Holmes costar as Will's relatives, the upper-class Banks of the Bel-Air neighborhood.
—Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025
But when Wilmet finally secures an invitation to Piers’s flat, she is received by Keith, a young man who models sweaters for knitting catalogues and has gone to great effort to lay out a tea worthy of his lover’s upper-class female friend.
—Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
Noun
However, before long, the tradition was reportedly taken over by the less wealthy as a way of making fun of the upper classes.
—Fiona Ward, Glamour, 31 Dec. 2025
So, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac, the upper class would take leftover food, goods, or money and put them in boxes to give out to the poor.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 24 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for upper-class
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While retaining an old-school, aristocratic vibe, Adare's fanciful gargoyles, genuinely warm staff, grand and intimate spaces, and super-comfortable rooms make it somewhere uniquely and unabashedly the Ireland of now.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
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His aristocratic taste inherited ideas of beauty and old European style, rather than innovating with new trends.—
Jye Marshall,
Fortune,
22 Jan. 2026
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The best dressed women in the world adored his designs, and his clientele included everyone from American First Ladies and Movie Stars to members of the aristocracy.—
Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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The Kardashians and other ring-light aristocracy passed around asymptomatic tests like hors d’oeuvres for parties while frontline clinicians — going toe-to-toe with the virus and terrified of turning their children into their next patients — were informed there simply weren’t tests to spare.—
Jennifer W. Tsai,
STAT,
18 Jan. 2026
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Other camellia species were noted and grown for their flowers gracing gardens of temples and nobility.—
Dawn Pettinelli,
Hartford Courant,
18 Jan. 2026
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The encounter amounts to a philosophical definition of nobility as something that owes nothing to titles or traditions.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2026
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But Denver was not returning to the NFL’s upper crust as a family business.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
22 Jan. 2026
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Of course, there’s more to a visit here with The Vault than simple upper crust cosplay.—
Mark Ellwood,
Robb Report,
20 Jan. 2026
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The nobles and gentry—the billionaires of Tudor England—made fortunes from the reclaimed monastery lands and created a myth of Henry’s military strength and English pride.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Oct. 2025
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Parker will play Mary Washington, George’s strong willed mother, while Rodgers will play Sally Cary, the charming beauty of the Virginia gentry who first sees his potential.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Upper-class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/upper-class. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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