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Another word for upper crust

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Noun

  1. People of the highest social level

      1. a book or list of short biographies of prominent persons of a certain place, profession, etc.
      2. the most important people or the elite, as of a certain profession
      1. The highest socioeconomic class in a society.
      1. The totality of people regarded as forming a community of interdependent individuals:
      2. A group of people broadly distinguished from other groups by mutual interests, participation in characteristic relationships, shared institutions, and a common culture:
      3. An organization or association of persons engaged in a common profession, activity, or interest:
      1. An inherent or distinguishing characteristic; a property:
      2. A personal trait, especially a character trait:
      3. Essential character; nature:
      1. Nobility or aristocracy.
      2. The rank, position, or term of office of a patrician.
      1. A class of persons distinguished by high birth or rank and in Great Britain including dukes and duchesses, marquises and marchionesses, earls and countesses, viscounts and viscountesses, and barons and baronesses:
      2. Noble rank or status:
      3. The state or quality of being exalted in character.
      1. People of gentle birth, good breeding, or high social position.
      2. An upper or ruling class.
      3. The class of English landowners ranking just below the nobility.
      1. The quality of being well-mannered; refinement.
      2. The condition of being born to the gentry.
      3. Persons of high social standing considered as a group.
      1. The reproductive structure of angiosperms, characteristically having either specialized male or female organs or both male and female organs, such as stamens and a pistil, enclosed in an outer envelope of petals and sepals.
      2. Such a structure having showy or colorful parts; a blossom.
      3. A flower head.
      1. A group or class of persons considered to be superior to others because of their intelligence, social standing, or wealth:
      2. A member of such a group:
      3. The best or most skilled members of a group:
      1. Noble or aristocratic descent.
      2. A member of the aristocracy.
      1. A hereditary ruling class; nobility.
      2. Government by a ruling class.
      3. A state or country having this form of government.
    See also:

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Idioms:

    upper crust

  1. Of high birth or social position

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Sentence Examples

  • The surface soil of Berar is to a great extent a rich black vegetable mould; and where this surface soil does not exist, there are muram and trap with a shallow upper crust of inferior light soil.

  • aspersion at the upper-crust, middle elite (?

  • The servants sat down to their meal at a later time to the ' upper crust ' .

  • The exiles among whom Ezekiel lived, like him, had come from the upper crust of Judean society.

  • Or, for a simple and sophisticated party, choose upper crust desserts, such as French pastries.

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