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English
Noun
social class (plural social classes)
- (social sciences) A class of people, based on social power, wealth or another criterion.
Coordinate terms
Translations
class of people
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: стан m (stan)
- Catalan: classe social m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 社會階層 / 社会阶层 (zh) (shèhuì jiēcéng), 社會階級 / 社会阶级 (shèhuì jiējí)
- Finnish: yhteiskuntaluokka (fi)
- French: classe sociale (fr) f
- Georgian: სოციალური კლასი (socialuri ḳlasi)
- German: Gesellschaftsklasse f, soziale Klasse f
- Greek: κοινωνική τάξη (el) f (koinonikí táxi)
- Hindi: ज़ात (hi) f (zāt), बिरादरी (hi) f (birādrī), जिनस (hi) f (jinas), जिंस (hi) f (jins), कुल (hi) m (kul), वंश (hi) m (vañś), बंस (hi) m (bans)
- Italian: rango (it) m, classe sociale (it)
- Japanese: 階級 (ja) (かいきゅう, kaikyū)
- Maori: papapori
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: samfunnsklasse m or f
- Nynorsk: samfunnsklasse m or f
- Persian: please add this translation if you can
- Portuguese: classe social f
- Romanian: clasă socială f
- Russian: сосло́вие (ru) n (soslóvije)
- Spanish: clase social (es) f, estrato social m
- Swedish: samhällsklass (sv) c
- Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
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