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# Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/word-of-the-day-41/
- Published: 2019-09-10T18:15:39.000Z
- Updated: 2019-09-09T22:31:11.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

The word for today is…

déclassé (adj) – 1\. Low or lowered in class, rank, or social position.  
2\. Characteristic of the lower classes; of low social status

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/declasse?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : “having lost one’s place in the social order,” 1887, from French déclassé, past participle of déclasser “to cause to lose class,” from de-, privative prefix (see de-) + classer “to class,” from classe (n.), from Latin classis (see class (n.)). In italics in English until c. 1920; nativized form declassed is attested from 1873.

> Fallen or put out of one’s proper class or place or any definite and recognized position or rank in the social system: applied to persons who by misfortune or their own fault have lost social or business standing, and are not counted as part of any recognize class of society. \[Century Dictionary, 1897\].