1. Adjective
Birth; condition; rank by birth.
2. Adjective
People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry.
3. Adjective
Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
4. Noun
the most powerful members of a society
Vocabulary classified under Sociology
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