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Definition of Middle class
1. Noun. The social class between the lower and upper classes.
Generic synonyms: Class, Social Class, Socio-economic Class, Stratum
Specialized synonyms: Petit Bourgeois, Petite Bourgeoisie, Petty Bourgeoisie
Member holonyms: Bourgeois, Burgher
Definition of Middle class
1. Noun. A social and economic class lying above the working class and below the upper class. ¹
2. Noun. (qualifier plural) The groups in society composed of professionals, semi-professionals, and lower-to-middle managerial level workers. 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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