lower-class

Questions about lower-class

What does lower-class mean?

lower-class means "occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society".

How many syllables are in lower-class?

lower-class has 3 syllables and divides as lo-wer--class under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for lower-class?

Close synonyms include low-class. 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.

What is the opposite of lower-class?

The recorded antonyms are middle-class, upper-class.

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.