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upper-crust

upper-crust adjective: posh, upper-class; pertaining to the upper crust.

Adjective

upper-crust (comparative more upper-crust, superlative most upper-crust)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) Posh, upper-class; pertaining to the upper crust.
    • An upper-crust London party.
    • They're aiming for a more upper-crust clientele.

upper-crust meaning in Bengali

upper-crust in Bengali

বিলাসবহুল, উচ্চবিত্ত শ্রেণীর, অভিজাত সমাজ সংক্রান্ত

Examples of upper-crust in a sentence

  • In 1986, Takako Doi was elected leader of the Japan Socialist Party; another woman is the president of Takashimaya, Japan's most upper-crust department store chain.1989, Roy Thomas, Japan: The Blighted Blossom, page 172:
  • But Prentice had grown up richer and more upper-crust than Richard had any idea of.1993, Alice Adams, Almost Perfect, published 1998, page 192:
  • Patinkin’s melodious voice is a natural fit for animation, and he breathes just the right type of upper-crust life into Hugh in 22 short minutes.2013 October 13, Erik Adams, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Lisa’s Wedding” (season six, episode 19; originally aired 3/19/1995)”...

Forms of upper-crust

comparativemore upper-crust
superlativemost upper-crust
alternative formupper crust

Questions about upper-crust

What does upper-crust mean?
Upper-crust means posh, upper-class; pertaining to the upper crust.
What is upper-crust in Bengali?
Upper-crust in Bengali is বিলাসবহুল, উচ্চবিত্ত শ্রেণীর, অভিজাত সমাজ সংক্রান্ত. See Upper-crust meaning in Bengali.
How do you use upper-crust in a sentence?
In 1986, Takako Doi was elected leader of the Japan Socialist Party; another woman is the president of Takashimaya, Japan's most upper-crust department store chain.
What part of speech is upper-crust?
Upper-crust is an adjective.

Words near upper-crust in the dictionary

  1. upper-case letters
  2. upper-class
  3. upper-class twit
  4. upper-class twits
  5. upper-classness
  6. upper-crust
  7. upper-cruster
  8. upper-crusters
  9. upper-crusty
  10. upper-division
  11. upper-medium

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upper-crust (page history and authors); upper-crust (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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