lower classˌlower ˈclass noun [countable] (also lower classes [plural]) 
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Thesaurus- Consequently, we propose to lower class sizes to 25 in the first three grades.
- His wife died from being too lower class.
- In college he loved a young girl of a lower class and ruined her; she died a suicide.
- Then you got the beatnik, maybe a lower class of person.
- Well, maybe, they could be, for once, treated just like their lower class brothers the football fans.
Longman Language Activatorthe lowest class► working-class
old-fashioned the social class that has less money, power, or education than anyone else. This is now considered offensive. → working class, middle class, upper class—lower-class adjective belonging to the class of people who do not have much money or power, and who have jobs where they do physical work. For example, factory workers, builders, and drivers are working-class: · Most of the people who live round here are working class.· I come from a working-class family - I'm the first one to graduate from college.
► lower-class an impolite word meaning belonging to the class that has less money, power, and education than anyone else: · It has been shown that children of lower-class parents are less likely to do well at school.· My mother's parents thought my father was terribly lower-class.
► the masses all the ordinary people in society who do not have power or influence, especially when they are thought of as not being very educated: · Television has brought cheap entertainment to the masses.· Lenin's position depended on the support of the masses.
► blue-collar: blue-collar worker/job/employee someone who does physical work, for example in a factory or a mine, and does not work in an office: · His political support comes mainly from blue-collar workers.
► humble: of (a) humble background/family/origins etc from a low social class and without much money, but often with a lot of determination to work hard and succeed: · The school had originally provided a good education for children of humble backgrounds.· Eisenhower, Nixon, and Ford were all men of humble origins and no inherited wealth.
► underclass the lowest social class, who are very poor and may not have jobs, homes etc: · The government has created an underclass who do not feel they have any rights in society.
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