déclassé

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See also: declasse and déclasse

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French déclassé.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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déclassé (comparative more déclassé, superlative most déclassé)

  1. 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

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  • The feminine form déclassée is often used with female subjects.

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Anagrams

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French

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Pronunciation

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Participle

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déclassé (feminine déclassée, masculine plural déclassés, feminine plural déclassées)

  1. past participle of déclasser

Adjective

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déclassé (feminine déclassée, masculine plural déclassés, feminine plural déclassées)

  1. (literally) stricken from the classification, no longer listed
  2. outcast, expelled

Noun

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déclassé m (plural déclassés, feminine déclassée)

  1. an outcast, reject, pariah

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