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middle class
1[ mid-l klas ]
noun
- the social, economic, and cultural class of people thought of as having approximately average status, income, education, tastes, and the like:
Life for the middle class includes going to college, getting a job, getting married, buying a house, and raising kids.
We intend to put an end to the tax squeeze on the middle class.
- Sociology. Sometimes middle classes. the socioeconomic stratum intermediate between the upper or aristocratic class and the laboring class, made up mostly of business people, professionals, civil servants, and skilled workers, and sometimes further subdivided into the upper middle class and the lower middle class:
In the 1950s and 1960s in America, an emphasis on education increased upward mobility, and the middle class expanded.
Self-improvement, a strong work ethic, and modesty were among the core moral values of the German middle classes of the early 20th century.
- any intermediate class.
middle-class
2[ mid-l-klas, -klahs ]
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle class; bourgeois:
middle-class taste; middle-class morality.
middle class
noun
- Also calledbourgeoisie a social stratum that is not clearly defined but is positioned between the lower and upper classes. It consists of businessmen, professional people, etc, along with their families, and is marked by bourgeois values Compare lower class upper class working class
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle class
middle class
- A social and economic class composed of those more prosperous than the poor, or lower class, and less wealthy than the upper class. Middle class is sometimes loosely used to refer to the bourgeoisie . In the United States and other industrial countries, the term is often applied to white-collar , as opposed to blue-collar , workers.
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Other Words From
- middle-classness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
The same picture emerges from middle class men in the U.S., Canada, and the Nordic countries.
As a white, educated, Western, middle-class male, I possess most of the unearned privilege the world has to offer.
But in more middle-class and working-class neighborhoods, sessions are typically a fourth of that price.
No longer does it constitute a reliable, middle class-based alternative to the corporatist mindset of the Republicans.
Faced with the loss of middle class voters, the administration seems determined to double down on its current coalition.
Among the middle class there was a strong party which had accepted the doctrines of the French Revolution.
Governor Street was just as dirty and squalid as any other tenement-house street in the poorer section of a middle-class city.
Wealthy tradesmen, also, hold a special position in the mixed middle class.
A cold tone of gentle-blooded, high-middle-class respectability prevails.
The congregation is a mixture of working and middle class people; the former kind being preponderant.
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