déclassé

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Adjective 1.3 Usage notes 1.4 Anagrams 2 French 2.1 Verb form 2.2 Adjective 2.3 Noun 2.3.1 Synonyms

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From French déclassé.

[edit] Adjective

déclassé (comparative more déclassé, superlative most déclassé)

1. Degraded from one's social class.
   • 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, p. 110:

     Having married a plebian and so become déclassée, the daughter of a patrician was barred by the patrician matrons from sacrifices at the shrine of Patrician Chastity ‘in the cattle market by the round temple of Hercules’.

[edit] Usage notes

• The feminine form déclassée is often used with female subjects.

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: acdeelss
• descales

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[edit] French

[edit] Verb form

déclassé

1. past participle of déclasser

[edit] Adjective

déclassé m. (f. déclassée, m. plural déclassés, f. plural déclassées)

1. (literally) stricken from the classification, no longer listed
2. outcast, expelled

[edit] Noun

déclassé m. (plural déclassés; feminine déclassée, plural déclassées)

1. An outcast, reject, pariah

[edit] Synonyms

• paria m.
• rejeton m.