MIDDLE-CLASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does middle-class mean? 

• MIDDLE-CLASS (adjective)
  The adjective MIDDLE-CLASS has 1 sense:

1. occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy

  Familiarity information: MIDDLE-CLASS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIDDLE-CLASS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy

Similar:

bourgeois (belonging to the middle class)

bourgeois; conservative; materialistic (conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class)

lower-middle-class (occupying the lower part of the middle socioeconomic range in a society)

upper-middle-class (occupying the upper part of the middle socioeconomic range in a society)

Attribute:

position; status (the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society)

Antonym:

lower-class (occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society)

upper-class (occupying the highest socioeconomic position in a society)

 Context examples 

Also, while aware that poverty was anything but delectable, she had a comfortable middle-class feeling that poverty was salutary, that it was a sharp spur that urged on to success all men who were not degraded and hopeless drudges.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)