social class

Questions about social class

What does social class mean?

social class means "people having the same social, economic, or educational status".

What is another word for social class?

Close synonyms include class, stratum, socio-economic 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.

Is social class a common word?

social 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.