#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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