classed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklæst/, /ˈklɑːst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æst, -ɑːst

Adjective

classed (not comparable)

1. (sociology) Marked in terms of or connected with socioeconomic class.
   • 2004, Kristin L. Matthews, The Re(a)d Menace, page 34:

     Howard tries to popularize "culture" and make his farm-laborer audience aware of their role in its creation and consumption. To do so, however, Howard encourages a classed form of regional competition – a "we aren't going to let these rich city folk tell us what's what" mentality."

   • 2012, Jayne Osgood, Narratives from the Nursery, page 103:

     In this study, Mulberry Bush Nursery took exclusively fee-paying, predominantly white, middle class children from three months to three years old. This provided a site for highly classed and 'raced' relationships between nursery worker and mother, where the nursery worker is positioned in an inferior position of servitude to the professional middle-class mother.

Derived terms

• multiclassed
• unclassed

Verb

classed

1. simple past and past participle of class

Derived terms

• alphabetico-classed
• multiclassed
• unclassed

Anagrams

• declass