working class
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.10 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The social class of those who perform physical work for a living, as opposed to the professional or middle class, the upper class, or others.
adj
Example Sentences
- "And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them."
- "It may seem that the Met was a snobbish outfit, a betrayer of the egalitarian dreams of Charles Pearson, but in being one of the pioneers of working men's fares the company had helped to bring about a revolution that would allow the working classes to live in London. Cheap trains would supersede Gladstone's well-meant Parliamentary Trains."
- "Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for an obvious evil which the interests of that class will necessarily demand."
Inflected Forms
working classes (plural)
more working class (comparative)
most working class (superlative)
working-class before noun (usually)