stratum vs upper class

upper class vs stratum

stratum and upper class both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
stratum	Yes	No	No	No
upper class	Yes	No	No	No

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

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

stratum (noun)	upper class (noun)
an abstract place usually conceived as having depth	the class occupying the highest position 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)

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