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above one's station

above one's station prepositional phrase: of higher social status than suitable for one's position, standing, or rank.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Of higher social status than suitable for one's position, standing, or rank.
    • The serf's ideas of equity were above his station.
    • Maternus, a private ſoldier, of a daring boldneſs above his ſtation,[…] plundered with impunity the rich and defenceleſs cities of Gaul and Spain.1776, Edward Gibbon, chapter IV, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 91

Questions about above one's station

What does above one's station mean?
Above one's station means of higher social status than suitable for one's position, standing, or rank.
What part of speech is above one's station?
Above one's station is a prepositional phrase.

Words near above one's station in the dictionary

  1. above measure
  2. above one's bend
  3. above one's huckleberry
  4. above one's pay grade
  5. above one's paygrade
  6. above one's station
  7. above oneself
  8. above par
  9. above proof
  10. above stairs
  11. above the board

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