upper ten thousandとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Coined in the 1800s by American poet and author Nathaniel Parker Willis.

名詞

upper ten thousand pl (plural only)

1. (dated, colloquial) The ten thousand people, more or less, who are highest in position or wealth; the upper class; the aristocracy.

同意語

• upper ten

関連する語

• uppertendom

参照

• “upper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.