Word Meanings - SWELLDOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively.
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- CLASSIFIC
Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification. - CLASSIFICATORY
Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle. - CLASSICISM
A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley. - CLASSIS
An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon. - PEOPLE
1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx. - FASHION-MONGERING
Behaving like a fashion-monger. Shak. - FASHIONED
Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned. - FASHION-MONGER
One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston. - FASHIONABLY
In a fashionable manner. - COLLECTIVELY
In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly. - CLASSMATE
One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college. - FASHIONABLENESS
State of being fashionable. - CLASSIC
1. A work of acknowledged excellence and authrity, or its author; -- originally used of Greek and Latin works or authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like character in any language. In is once raised him to the rank of a legitimate - CLASSICALITY; CLASSICALNESS
The quality of being classical. - CLASSIFY
To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrnge in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters. Syn. -- To arrange; distibute; rank. - CLASSIFICATION
The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities. Artificial classification. See under Artifitial. - CLASSIBLE
Capable of being classed. - FASHIONABLE
1. Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress. 2. Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy; - PEOPLED
Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited. "The peopled air." Gray. - CLASS DAY
In American colleges and universities, a day of the commencement season on which the senior class celebrates the completion of its course by exercises conducted by the members, such as the reading of the class histories and poem, the delivery of - TRADESPEOPLE
People engaged in trade; shopkeepers. - SECOND-CLASS
Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage. - REFASHIONMENT
The act of refashioning, or the state of being refashioned. Leigh Hunt. - IMPEOPLE
To people; to give a population to. Thou hast helped to impeople hell. Beaumont. - DISPEOPLE
To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Leave the land dispeopled and desolate. Sir T. More. A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea rivers. Milton. - FIRST-CLASS
Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended - DEPEOPLE
To depopulate. - REPEOPLE
To people anew.