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Definition of Lower-class
1. Adjective. Occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society.
Attributes: Position, Status
Similar to: Non-u, Proletarian, Blue-collar, Propertyless, Wage-earning, Working-class, Upper-lower-class
Also: Lowborn
Antonyms: Middle-class, Upper-class
Definition of Lower-class
1. Adjective. Not of the elite, of the peasantry or working-class. ¹
2. Adjective. Unrefined. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lower-class
Literary usage of Lower-class
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Introduction to the Theory of Fourier's Series and Integrals by Horatio Scott Carslaw (1921)
"Also every number in the lower class is less than every number in the upper.
The lower class has n0 greatest number and the upper class has no smallest ..."
2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"... and in 1845 he published twelve very useful ' Letters on the Unhealthy Condition
of the Lower Class of Dwellings,' founded on the official reports ..."
3. The Bookman (1915)
"Browning is praised by the middle class not because he is admired by the upper
class but because he is not admired by the lower class. ..."
4. Sunshine and shadow in New York by Matthew Hale Smith (1869)
"JEWS OF THE LOWER CLASS. Portions of the city on the east side are wholly ...
The lower class of this people are foreigners, and fraud is their capital. ..."
5. The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Fanny Kemble, Kate Field, John William Cole (1882)
"... race qualities with the independent tone of pert familiarity, the careless
extravagance, and the passion for dress of Amerian girls of the lower class. ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly (1878)
"But the civilization of that immense majority who have not £5000 a year, or £500,
or | even £100, of our middle and lower class, seems to him too deplorable ..."
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