class war

1. 1.

   conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes)

   Synonymsclass struggleclass warfare

   Broaderconflict

Questions about class war

What does class war mean?

class war means "conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes)".

What is another word for class war?

Close synonyms include class struggle, class warfare. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is class war a common word?

class war is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.