privileged class

Synonyms

gentry peerage aristocracy beau monde jet set blue blood high society ruling class life peer gentlefolks patricianism

Antonyms

masses peasantry proletariat lower-class rank and file ragtag and bobtail
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Examples

Socialists do not propose to substitute the domination of society by one privileged class for that of another. They seek to abolish class distinctions altogether. The abolition of classes is fundamental to the Socialist conception of society. Clement Attlee

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class. George Bernard Shaw

I know of no privileged class of society, and I do not know an esquire has any privileges a yeoman has not. Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden

I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring? Simon Raven

Words in the phrase

privileged class

Close letter words and terms

privileged area privileged background privileged circumstances privileged classes privileged debt privileged information