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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French déclassé.
Pronunciation
Adjective
déclassé (comparative more déclassé, superlative most déclassé)
- Degraded from one's social class.
2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin, published 2009, page 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’.
Usage notes
- The feminine form déclassée is often used with female subjects.
Translations
Degraded from one's social class
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Participle
déclassé (feminine déclassée, masculine plural déclassés, feminine plural déclassées)
- past participle of déclasser
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)
- an outcast, reject, pariah
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