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Definition of Middle-class
1. Adjective. Occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy.
Similar to: Bourgeois, Bourgeois, Conservative, Materialistic, Lower-middle-class, Upper-middle-class
Antonyms: Lower-class, Upper-class
Definition of Middle-class
1. Adjective. occupying a position between the upper class and the working class ¹
2. Adjective. characteristic of the middle class(es); reflective of that class's values and aspirations. Commonly associated with a desire for social respectability and an emphasis on family values and education. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Middle-class
Literary usage of Middle-class
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1908)
"The American middle class has long cherished a similar comforting belief. ...
There has been much truth in this adulation of the American middle class in ..."
2. English Prose (1137-1890) by John Matthews Manly (1909)
"A new power has suddenly appeared, a power which it is impossible yet to judge
fully, but which is certainly a wholly different force from middle-class ..."
3. The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle by Ernest Barker (1906)
"Again, the members of the middle class are less inclined than the rich to waste
their money upon costly and ruinous liturgies, which only corrupt the giver ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1904)
"The middle class was very differently composed in France and in England. In England
there has always been a rural middle class either of yeomen or ..."
5. The Bookman (1915)
"No middle class person would dare to say that a bad play by Mr. Shaw was a bad play
... The thing called "fashion" is always a function of the middle class. ..."
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