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MIDDLEBROW
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Dictionary entry overview: What does middlebrow mean?
• MIDDLEBROW (noun)
The noun MIDDLEBROW has 1 sense:
1. someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow
Familiarity information: MIDDLEBROW used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("middlebrow" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
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