upper ten thousand
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Coined in the 1800s by American poet and author Nathaniel Parker Willis.
Noun[edit]
upper ten thousand pl (plural only)
- (dated, colloquial) The ten thousand people, more or less, who are highest in position or wealth; the upper class; the aristocracy.
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References[edit]
- “upper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.