[sing.] (also the upper classes [pl.]) the groups of people that are considered to have the highest social status and that have more money and/or power than other people in society:
a member of the upper class / upper classes
upper class adjective:
Her family is very upper class. * an upper-class accent
compareLOWERCLASS, MIDDLECLASS, WORKINGCLASS
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