ruling class

1. 1.

   the class of people exerting power or authority

   Synonymspeople in power

   Broaderupper class

Questions about ruling class

What does ruling class mean?

ruling class means "the class of people exerting power or authority".

What is another word for ruling class?

Close synonyms include people in power. 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 ruling class a common word?

ruling 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.