#upper_class__upperclas__upper_crust__uppercrust  the class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy
  supertype:  socio-economic_class__class__clas__socialclas  people having the same social or economic status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class"
  subtype:  elite  a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status
     subtype:  elect__chosen  an exclusive group of people: "one of the elect who have power inside the government"
     subtype:  cream.elite  the best people or things in a group; "the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War"
     subtype:  intelligentsia__clerisy  an educated and intellectual elite
        subtype:  literati  the literary intelligentsia
     subtype:  high_society__society__beau_monde__smart_set__bon_ton  the fashionable elite
     subtype:  few.elite  a small elite group; "it was designed for the discriminating few"
     subtype:  aristocracy  a privileged class holding hereditary titles
        subtype:  noblesse  members of the nobility (especially of the French nobility)
        subtype:  peerage__baronage  the peers of a kingdom considered as a group
        subtype:  second_estate__lords_temporal__lordstemporal  the second estate of the realm: the nobility (especially British nobility) of the rank of duke or marquess or earl or viscount or baron
        subtype:  knighthood  aristocrats holding the rank of knight
        subtype:  samurai  feudal Japanese military aristocracy
        subtype:  Ferdinand_and_Isabella  joint monarchs of Spain; Ferdinand V and Isabella I
        subtype:  William_and_Mary  joint monarchs of England; William III and Mary II
  subtype:  gentry__aristocracy  the most powerful members of a society
     subtype:  landed_gentry__squirearchy  the gentry who own land (considered as a class)
  subtype:  ruling_class  the class of people exerting power or authority

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