déclassé
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French déclassé.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
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 edit
- The feminine form déclassée is often used with female subjects.
Translations edit
Degraded from one's social class
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Participle edit
déclassé (feminine déclassée, masculine plural déclassés, feminine plural déclassées)
Adjective edit
déclassé (feminine déclassée, masculine plural déclassés, feminine plural déclassées)
- (literally) stricken from the classification, no longer listed
- outcast, expelled
Noun edit
déclassé m (plural déclassés, feminine déclassée)
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Further reading edit
- “déclassé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.