social class vs upper crust

upper crust vs social class

social class and upper crust both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
social class	Yes	No	No	No
upper crust	Yes	No	No	No

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

social class: people having the same social, economic, or educational status
upper crust: the class occupying the highest position 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, lower class, underclass, bourgeoisie, middle class, booboisie, commonality, commonalty, commons, peasantry, demimonde, underworld, yeomanry, caste, caste, upper class, ninja, firing line, immigrant class, center, centre, old school, market, craft, trade, fair sex, woman, womanhood, patriciate.

social class (noun)	upper crust (noun)
people having the same social, economic, or educational status	the class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy

Difference between social class and upper crust

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