单词 | disclassed |
释义 | disclassedadj. That has been disclassed; esp. (of a person) removed from one's original social class. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > [adjective] > reduced in social standing disclassed1868 declassed1891 déclassé1921 1868 Standard 27 Jan. 2/3 In the event of any of these disclassed beings (neither any more Englishmen nor of any other nationality) returning to their own country. 1880 Naut. Mag. Mar. 191 Our own view is, that some bran[d] new ships are far more dangerous than some of the disclassed wooden ships. 1916 G. B. Shaw Pygmalion 196 Her father..formerly a dustman, and now fantastically disclassed, had become extremely popular in the smartest society. 1989 C. Fourniau in J. A. de Moor & H. L. Wesseling Imperialism & War iii. 78 These men who constituted a higher and higher proportion of the Expeditionary Corps were recruited from disclassed members of society. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1868 |
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