déclassé
English
Etymology
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 2009, p. 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’.
- 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, p. 110:
Translations
- Romanian: declasat m and n; degradat
Usage notes
- The feminine form déclassée is often used with female subjects.
Anagrams
French
Verb
déclassé m (feminine déclassée, masculine plural déclassés, feminine plural déclassées)
- Past participle of déclasser
Adjective
déclassé m (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, plural déclassées)