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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ˈmid•dle ˈclass, n. [countable]- Sociologya class of people intermediate between those of higher and lower economic or social standing.
mid•dle--class, adj.: criticizing her parents for their middle-class values. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024mid′dle class′, - a class of people intermediate between the classes of higher and lower social rank or standing;
the social, economic, cultural class, having approximately average status, income, education, tastes, and the like. - the class traditionally intermediate between the aristocratic class and the laboring class.
- Sociologyan intermediate class.
mid•dle-class (mid′l klas′, -kläs′),USA pronunciation adj. - Sociologyof, pertaining to, or characteristic of the middle class;
bourgeois:middle-class taste; middle-class morality.
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