Synonyms for upper-class
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1. upper class, upper crustadjective

   the class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy

   Synonyms:
   upper crust, upper class

   Antonyms:
   upper-middle-class, middle-class, blue-collar, proletarian, working-class, wage-earning, conservative, lower-class, upper-lower-class, bourgeois, low-class, propertyless, non-U, materialistic, lower-middle-class

2. upper-classadjective

   occupying the highest socioeconomic position in a society

   Antonyms:
   materialistic, low-class, proletarian, working-class, middle-class, upper-lower-class, non-U, blue-collar, lower-class, upper-middle-class, wage-earning, bourgeois, lower-middle-class, conservative, propertyless

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1. List of paraphrases for "upper-class":

   upper

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1. Michael Rosenbaum:

   I thought she would be married with kids. She was smart, and her family was into music and opera and stuff, and sort of upper class.

2. Economist Brian Jackson:

   Many large malls (and residential construction) in China.... are all hoping to target one demographic -- the upper class, what is needed to succeed is retail space that caters to (the much larger) bulk of middle-class Chinese.

3. Paul Fussell:

   If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it.

4. Phil Hill:

   It’s not unusual for a middle class, upper class family with soccer kids to be spending $20, $30, $40,000 a year to keep them all playing at the high level, the median household income of most kids we work with is $26,000. I mean you can do the math. It just locks them out.

5. Michael Lind:

   The Southern upper class never really cared what color the serfs were.