Middle Class Definition

mid'lklas
noun
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.
Webster's New World
(plural) The groups in society composed of professionals, semi-professionals, and lower-to-middle managerial level workers.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • bourgeoisie
  • the rank and file
  • white-collar class
  • common people
adjective
Of, having to do with, or characteristic of the middle class.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Middle Class

Noun

Singular:
middle class
Plural:
middle-classes

Middle Class Sentence Examples

  • He had a modest income that allowed him to live in a nice middle-class neighborhood, but did not let him enjoy many luxuries.

  • His father was a middle-class landed proprietor and a decurion, who is represented as living at a place called Bannauenta.

  • The Lower school is devoted to middle-class education.

  • Whereas even in wealthy decades like the 1950s, a middle-class girl might wear the same dress for a few years, that was far less the case in the 1980s.

  • In addition, attending a Catholic high school can cost many thousands of dollars a year, placing it well out of reach of many middle-class families.

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