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German
Etymology
From Bevölkerung (“population”) + -s- + Schicht (“class”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Bevölkerungsschicht f (genitive Bevölkerungsschicht, plural Bevölkerungsschichten)
- social stratum
1878, Friedrich Nietzsche, Menschliches, Allzumenschliches [Human, All Too Human], section 438:Sodann muss man es diesen Wenigen nachsehen, wenn sie das Glück der Vielen, verstehe man nun darunter Völker oder Bevölkerungsschichten, nicht so wichtig nehmen und sich hie und da eine ironische Miene zu Schulden kommen lassen; […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Declension of Bevölkerungsschicht
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