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Meaning of "overclass" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OVERCLASS

overclass  [ˌəʊvəˈklɑːs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVERCLASS

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pronoun
preposition
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Overclass is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OVERCLASS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Overclass

Overclass is a recent and pejorative term for the most powerful group in a social hierarchy. Users of the term generally imply excessive and unjust privilege and exploitation of the rest of society. Compare the older term, upper class, which nowadays is sometimes also pejorative, but is not necessarily so, and historically was rarely so. Perhaps the most commonly agreed-upon "overclass" consists of leaders in international business, finance and the war industry. Historian Paul Fussell refers to what he calls a "top out of sight" class in the United States. These are people who have an even better quality of life than a visible overclass because their vast wealth allows them to affect cultural and political changes without first exposing them to public comment. Conspiracy theories often propose a secret society with supernatural overtones as an invisible global overclass. The word is fairly recent: the Oxford English Dictionary only included it December 2004. But it has been in use since at least 1995. At least some writers compare it to the more familiar underclass...

Definition of overclass in the English dictionary

The definition of overclass in the dictionary is dominant group in society.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OVERCLASS


class
klɑːs
club-class
ˈklʌbˌklɑːs
declass
diːˈklɑːs
fiberglass
ˈfaɪbəɡlɑːs
first-class
ˈfɜːstˌklɑːs
glass
ɡlɑːs
interclass
ˌɪntəˈklɑːs
lower-class
ˌləʊəˈklɑːs
masterclass
ˈmɑːstəˌklɑːs
middle-class
ˈmɪdəl klɑːs
misclass
ˌmɪsˈklɑːs
nonclass
ˌnɒnˈklɑːs
outclass
ˌaʊtˈklɑːs
second-class
ˌsɛkəndˈklɑːs
subclass
ˈsʌbˌklɑːs
superclass
ˈsuːpəˌklɑːs
top-class
ˈtɒpˈklɑːs
underclass
ˈʌndəˌklɑːs
upper-class
ˌˈʌpəˈklɑːs
working-class
ˌwɜːkɪŋˈklɑːs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OVERCLASS

overcharge
overcharging
overcheap
overcheck
overchill
overcivil
overcivilised
overcivilized
overclad
overclaim
overclean
overclear
overclock
overclocker
overclocking
overclose
overcloud
overcloy
overcoach
overcoat

WORDS THAT END LIKE OVERCLASS

business class
club class
dancing class
economy class
evening class
first class
form class
gym class
high-class
lass
lower class
master class
middle class
second class
sergeant first class
standard class
third class
upper class
upper middle class
working class
world-class

Synonyms and antonyms of overclass in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «overclass» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OVERCLASS

Find out the translation of overclass to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of overclass from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «overclass» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

上层阶级
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

clase superior
570 millions of speakers

English

overclass
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

overclass
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

overclass
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

overclass
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

overclass
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

overclass
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

classe supérieure
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Overclass
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Oberklasse
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

overclass
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

overclass
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Overclass
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

overclass
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

overclass
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अवयव
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

overclass
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Overclass
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

overclass
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

overclass
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

overclass
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υπερτάξης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

overclass
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

overclass
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overclass
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of overclass

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERCLASS»

The term «overclass» is normally little used and occupies the 142.973 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERCLASS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about overclass

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERCLASS»

Discover the use of overclass in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to overclass and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Moral Order and Social Disorder: The American Search for ...
Over the past generation, Lind argues, the United States has come to be dominated by the white overclass — a small group consisting of affluent white executives, professionals, and rentiers, most of them with advanced degrees, who with ...
Frank Hearn
2
Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth ...
We can be certain that, if racial preferences threatened the jobs or incomes of overclass Americans, those preferences would be abolished tomorrow. Similarly, if members of the white overclass themselves began to pay a price for mass ...
Michael Lind, 2010
3
Up from Conservatism
It is not my contention that the overclass is exclusively conservative. Most conservative politicians and intellectuals belong to the overclass. So do most left- liberal politicians and intellectuals. So do most neolib- eral politicians and intellectuals.
Michael Lind, 2013
4
Newbos: The Rise of America's New Black Overclass
This work exposes and chronicles the experience of these Newbos--New Black Overclass--as they gain wealth at a young age.
Lee Hawkins, 2009
5
Total Propaganda: From Mass Culture To Popular Culture
The TechnoIogical Overclass As beneficiaries of dramatic economic growth, invention, and the mastery of new skills, the technological overclass has exploited every modality of com— municationprop. Quantitatively, more have addresses on ...
Alex S. Edelstein, 2013
6
The Best of "The Public Square".: Book two
Being itself loyal to nothing, the overclass cannot evoke loyalty One cannot hold the commanding heights without commanding truths, and it was by the rejection of commanding truths that the overclass seized the heights in the first place.
Richard John Neuhaus, 2001
7
The Good Citizen
But we cannot think of the problems of the underclass without simultaneously thinking of the problems of the overclass and the anxious class, both material and spiritual. I hope you will understand me if l say that the real problem in our society  ...
David Batstone, Eduardo Mendieta, 2014
8
Speeding to the Millennium: Film and Culture 1993-1995
Overclass lives, therefore, have to be distanced and protected from underclass lives — a process which Lind calls "Brazilianization" in honor of the endemic status of rich and poor in Latin American countries. What we are presently seeing , ...
Joseph Natoli, 1998
9
American Society Today
The word 'overclass' was first used by Gunnar Myrdal. a Swedish sociologist who undertook a pioneering study of African- American life. In the 1990s the term was resurrected by Michael Lind, a journalist and commentator. Lind argues that ...
Edward Ashbee, 2002
10
Social Perspective: The Missing Element in Mental Health ...
superclass are the 'white overclass' and the 'institutional elite.' The top officials in federal and state governments, university executives, military officers, judges, diplomats, financial and industrial executives, publishers, and intellectuals ...
Richard U'Ren, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERCLASS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term overclass is used in the context of the following news items.
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New York City becomes a gated community for the rich in Bleed …
Entering the overclass cities being impossible, commoners left outside are faced with a new world devoid of high technology, but rich in spirit ... «PR Newswire, Jul 15»
2
'Mislaid,' by Nell Zink
Meanwhile, Byrdie, her long-lost brother, raised by Lee as an epicurean libertine and bona fide member of the Caucasian overclass, has ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
3
Dick Fuld, Disgraced Former CEO Of Lehman Brothers, Makes …
failing upward - the m.o. of the american overclass. "conservatives" all think it's just peachy-keen. i think the whole operation stinks of rot. «Huffington Post, May 15»
4
The Divergent Series: Insurgent—More talent and resources …
... not openly fascistic—post-apocalyptic societies in which children are pitted against each other for survival by an overclass is staggering and ... «World Socialist Web Site, May 15»
5
Why the 'toilet beard' story is pure nonsense
It always amuses me to watch the now-redundant beardless overclass and their increasingly desperate attempts to discredit beards. Over the ... «The New Daily, May 15»
6
Vanity Fair Kicks Off Tribeca Film Festival
Indeed, this annual party, with its flowing Champagne, functions as a spring reunion for the overclass after six long months of winter isolation. «New York Times, Apr 15»
7
Why Wisconsin loved Abraham Lincoln
Of course Wisconsinites were not buying the idea of a permanent overclass; of course they embraced free labor's ideals of social mobility. «Wausau Daily Herald, Apr 15»
8
“Wolf Hall” looks like a lying piece of anti-Catholic agitprop
English history, ever since then, has consisted of sycophants of the rich and the overclass explaining to the lower orders why they were heroes ... «Patheos, Apr 15»
9
When Boston Had Confidence: Thoughts Inspired By The Olympic …
... historian Douglass Shand -Tucci recalls the superiority complex of the city's Brahmin overclass, and the competing inferiority complex of its ... «WGBH NEWS, Mar 15»
10
When did the rich become so utterly horrible?
I don't think today's greedy, ghastly overclass are going bring about the end of world in this way. But if they don't learn to control their hunger for ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»

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