lower class

1. 1.

   the social class lowest in the social hierarchy

   Synonymsunderclass

   Broaderclass

Questions about lower class

What does lower class mean?

lower class means "the social class lowest in the social hierarchy".

What is another word for lower class?

Close synonyms include underclass. 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 lower class a common word?

lower class is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.