单词 | middle-class |
释义 | middle-class (once / 1742 pages) adj WORD FAMILY middle-class USAGE EXAMPLESThe Swedish activist says he was partly driven by “middle-class guilt” but also a conviction that people should be the masters of their own destinies. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) Wealthier Americans might ponder the future of football, Irvin said, but poor and middle-class kids were betting their future on football. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) The Screwvalas say they hope to raise a generation of socially conscious middle-class Indians, and perhaps the next wave of Indian entrepreneurs. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) adj occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy Syn|Ant bourgeois belonging to the middle class bourgeois, conservative, materialisticconforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class lower-middle-classoccupying the lower part of the middle socioeconomic range in a society upper-middle-classoccupying the upper part of the middle socioeconomic range in a society low-class, lower-class occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society upper-classoccupying the highest socioeconomic position in a society non-Unot characteristic of the upper classes especially in language use proletarianbelonging to or characteristic of the proletariat blue-collar, propertyless, wage-earning, working-classof those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers upper-lower-classoccupying the upper part of the lower class qualityof high social status propertied, property-owningowning land or securities as a principal source of revenue u(chiefly British) of or appropriate to the upper classes especially in language use tweedy(of country gentry) informal, clannish and outdoorsy wellbornof good or upper-class lineage lowbornof humble birth or origins |
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