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declasse

declasse is the alternative form of déclassé.

Meaning of déclassé

Adjective

déclassé (comparative more déclassé, superlative most déclassé)

  1. Degraded from one's social class.
    • 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’.2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin, published 2009, page 110

Forms of declasse

comparativemore declasse
superlativemost declasse

Questions about declasse

What is declasse the alternative form of?
Declasse is the alternative form of déclassé.

Words near declasse in the dictionary

  1. declarin'
  2. declaring
  3. declaring war
  4. declarings
  5. declass
  6. declasse
  7. declassed
  8. declasses
  9. declassicize
  10. declassicized
  11. declassicizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: declasse (page history and authors); déclassé (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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