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middle class

the social class between the aristocracy or very wealthy and the lower working class: people in business and the professions, highly skilled workers, well-to-do farmers, etc. are now generally included in the middle class
middle-class definition

middle-class (-klas′)

adjective

of, having to do with, or characteristic of the middle class: often used variously to connote conventional, smug, materialistic, etc. attitudes

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middle class Synonyms

middle-class

modif.

white-collar, bourgeois, substantial; see common 1, popular 1, 3.


middle class

n.

white-collar class, the rank and file, bourgeoisie, common people; see people 3.


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middle class Usage Examples

Adjective modifier

  • white: They tend to be southern, white, middle class, middle-aged and well educated.
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middle class quotes

Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.

-Arnold, Matthew

We had intended you to be The next Prime Minister but three: The stocks were sold; the Press was squared; The Middle Class was quite prepared. But as it is!† My language fails! Go out and govern New South Wales!

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre

What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.

-Drabble, Margaret

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