CLASS STRUCTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does class structure mean? 

• CLASS STRUCTURE (noun)
  The noun CLASS STRUCTURE has 1 sense:

1. the organization of classes within a society

  Familiarity information: CLASS STRUCTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLASS STRUCTURE (noun)

Meaning:

The organization of classes within a society

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("class structure" is a kind of...):

social organisation; social organization; social structure; social system; structure (the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships)

Meronyms (members of "class structure"):

class; social class; socio-economic class (people having the same social or economic status)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "class structure"):

caste system (a social structure in which classes are determined by heredity)