Meanings
adjectivedéclassé (comparative more déclassé, superlative most déclassé)
comparative more déclassé · superlative most déclassé
- 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
Origin
- Frenchdéclassé
- Englishdéclassé
Borrowed from French déclassé.
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Romanian declasat, degradat
- declasatDegraded from one's social class
- degradatDegraded from one's social class
Russian деклассированный
- деклассированный (deklassirovannyj)Degraded from one's social class
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APA
déclassé. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/d%C3%A9class%C3%A9
MLA
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Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “déclassé,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/d%C3%A9class%C3%A9.
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