Foreigner of a socially superior strain, possibly (8)
I believe the answer is:
austrian
'foreigner' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'a socially superior strain possibly' is the wordplay.
'socially superior' becomes 'u' (I've seen this in other clues. I am not sure about the 'socially' bit.**).
'possibly' indicates an anagram.
'strain' is an anagram of 'strian'.
'a'+'u'+'strian'='AUSTRIAN'
'of' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for austrian that I've seen before include "Person from Vienna, say" , "Hot spicy pod" , "Mozart's nationality" , "person from Europe" , "Eg, native of Vienna" .)