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lower class

adj, noun — 3 senses

lower-class

adjalso spelled lower-class
1

Not of the elite, of the peasantry or working-class.

  • The lower-class people have little chance of advancement.
2

Unrefined.

  • His lower-class tastes tended to run to three-stooges movies and cheap drink.
Derived terms
lower-classness

lower class

noun
1

A class of people in a society characterized by low incomes, low level of education, high unemployment and, as a result of these, a low social status.

  • The only language of the lower class is pidgin-English—quite incomprehensible to the newcomer from Great Britain, —but a large proportion of the inhabitants are highly educated men who excel as lawyers, clergymen, clerks and traders.1911, “Freetown”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
Related terms
lower-class, working class

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — authors: page histories for lower-class and lower class.