social class vs lower class

lower class vs social class

social class and lower class both are nouns.

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

As nouns, lower class is a hyponym of social class; that is, lower class is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than social class:

social class: people having the same social, economic, or educational status
lower class: the social class lowest in the social hierarchy

Other hyponyms of social class include domain, world, age class, agriculture, brotherhood, fraternity, sodality, estate, estate of the realm, the three estates, labor, labour, proletariat, working class, underclass, bourgeoisie, middle class, booboisie, commonality, commonalty, commons, peasantry, demimonde, underworld, yeomanry, caste, caste, upper class, upper crust, ninja, firing line, immigrant class, center, centre, old school, market, craft, trade, fair sex, woman, womanhood, patriciate.

social class (noun)	lower class (noun)
people having the same social, economic, or educational status	the social class lowest in the social hierarchy

Difference between social class and lower class

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