单词 | middle-middle-class |
释义 | > as lemmasmiddle-middle-class middle-middle-class n. and adj. (a) n. (in singular and plural) the middle portion of the middle class; (b) adj. belonging to or characteristic of the middle portion of the middle class. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > middle class or bourgeoisie burgessy1533 menalty1548 middle class1654 middling class1745 middling1751 bourgeoise1769 bourgeoisie1774 petite bourgeoisie1846 petty bourgeoisie1850 middling interest1857 upper middle class1864 middle-middle-class1886 well-heeled1897 small bourgeoisie1970 1886 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 493/2 She is essentially a specimen of the Berlin ‘middle-middle’ class. 1914 E. M. Forster Maurice (1971) xlii. 202 The clientele of Messrs Hill and Hall was drawn from the middle-middle classes. 1934 H. Read Art & Industry iv. 126/1 He..is a middle-middle-class man with a nice little house in the suburbs. 1973 Listener 22 Feb. 249/3 Their milieux range from lower-middle to middle-middle class. 1994 Toronto Life Aug. 28/1 He emerged..from a middle middle-class adolescence spent in what was then the stifling wasp wasteland of Brampton. < as lemmas |
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