Definition of Middlebrow

1. Noun. Someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow.

Generic synonyms: Individual, Mortal, Person, Somebody, Someone, Soul
Language type: Colloquialism

Definition of Middlebrow

1. Adjective. Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between. ¹

2. Noun. A person or thing that is neither a highbrow or lowbrow, but in between. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Middlebrow

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Middlebrow

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Literary usage of Middlebrow

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Global Infatuation: Explorations in Transnational Publishing and Texts : the by Eva Hemmungs Wirtén (1998)
"The Book-of-the-Month Club, Middlebrow Culture and the Transformation of the Literary Field in the United States 1926-1<)40. The Adam Helms Lecture 1996 ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"... that has precipitated regular onslaughts on Bacon as the apologist for middlebrow man. The problem is not unique to Bacon but a continuing dilemma. ..."

3. A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature by Martha L. Brogan, Daphnée Rentfrow (2005)
"... edited by Mary E. Papke, Middlebrow Moderns: Popular Women Writers of the 1920s, edited by Lisa ..."

4. Dynamics & Stochastics: Festschrift in Honour of M.S. Keane by Dee Denteneer, F. den Hollander, M. S. Keane, Evgeny Verbitskiy (2006)
"Prolegomena to a Middlebrow Arithmetic of Curves of Genus 2, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, 230. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, ..."

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