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stratum vs underclass

underclass vs stratum

stratum and underclass both are nouns.

stratum is not an adjective while underclass is an adjective.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
stratum Yes No No No
underclass Yes Yes No No
As nouns, underclass is a hyponym of stratum; that is, underclass is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than stratum:
  • stratum: people having the same social, economic, or educational status
  • underclass: the social class lowest in the social hierarchy
Other hyponyms of stratum include domain, world, age class, agriculture, brotherhood, fraternity, sodality, estate, estate of the realm, the three estates, labor, labour, proletariat, working class, lower class, 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.
stratum (noun) underclass (noun)
an abstract place usually conceived as having depth the social class lowest in the social hierarchy
a subpopulation divided into a stratified sampling
people having the same social, economic, or educational status
one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock)
stratum (adjective) underclass (adjective)
belonging to the lowest and least privileged social stratum
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