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Definition of Ruling class
1. Noun. The class of people exerting power or authority.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruling Class
Literary usage of Ruling class
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1907)
"... I. THE NEW ruling class AND THEIR ADMINISTRATION Governor Warmoth of Louisiana
House Report no. ..."
2. The Economic Principles of Confucius and His School by Huan-chang Chʻen (1911)
"CHAPTER XXVIII EXCLUSION OF THE ruling class FROM THE ECONOMIC FIELD I.
GENERAL PRINCIPLES IN modern times the socialist advocates modern socialism against ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"In the Middle Ages, land being the most essential instrument for the production
of wealth, the landlords were the ruling class and social institutions were ..."
4. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1876)
"The ruling class keeps the administration of so- called justice in its own hands
... It is therefore not wonderful if, as a rule, the ruling class deal rope ..."
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