patriciate vs social class

patriciate and social class both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
patriciate	Yes	No	No	No
social class	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, social class is a hypernym of patriciate; that is, social class is a word with a broader meaning than patriciate:

patriciate: members of the patrician class.
social class: people having the same social, economic, or educational status

Other hypernyms of patriciate include class, socio-economic class, stratum.

patriciate (noun)	social class (noun)
members of the patrician class.	people having the same social, economic, or educational status