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The Creation of Adam, from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling – an example of high culture. In a society, high culture encompasses cultural objects of aesthetic value which a society collectively esteems as being exemplary works of art, [1] as well as the intellectual works of literature and music, history and philosophy which a society considers representative of their culture.
High society is a category of people deemed to have social status or prestige. High Society may also refer to: Films. High Society, an Our Gang silent comedy; High ...
Ton society was intensely class-conscious and the social hierarchy was rigid. Members of the ton came from the aristocracy (nobility) and royalty. Though some wealthier members of the middle classes could marry into the lower ranks of the gentry, such unions were not completely accepted by the elite ton .
The high-status track: Studies of elite schools and stratification (1990). Foulkes, Nick. High Society: The History of America's Upper Class, (Assouline, 2008) ISBN 2759402886; Fraser, Steve and Gary Gerstle, eds. Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy, Harvard UP, 2005, ISBN 0-674-01747-1
Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...
At Carolina Herrera, the young designer is remaking the society uniform for a new generation.
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
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