déclassé
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French déclassé.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
déclassé (comparative more déclassé, superlative most déclassé)
- 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’.
- 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, p. 110:
Usage notes
- The feminine form déclassée is often used with female subjects.
Translations
Degraded from one's social class
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French
Verb
déclassé (feminine déclassée, masculine plural déclassés, feminine plural déclassées)
Adjective
déclassé (feminine déclassée, masculine plural déclassés, feminine plural déclassées)
- (literally) stricken from the classification, no longer listed
- outcast, expelled
Noun
déclassé m (plural déclassés, feminine déclassée)
Synonyms
Further reading
- “déclassé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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