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
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Her family is very upper class. an upper-class accent compare lower-class, middle class, working classSee the upper class in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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