middle class
middle class noun: a social and economic class lying above the working class and below the upper class.
Noun
middle class (plural middle classes)
- A social and economic class lying above the working class and below the upper class.
- All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2013
- Synonyms:
- middling class, middling sort
- The groups in society composed of professionals, semi-professionals, and lower to middle managerial level workers.
middle class meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu
middle class in Hindi
- social and economic class
- मध्यवर्ग madhyavarg
middle class in Tamil
- இடை வகுப்பினர், இடை வகுப்பு, மத்திய தர வகுப்பினர்
middle class in Urdu
- درمیانی طبقہ
middle class in Telugu
- social and economic class
- మద్య తరగతి madya taragati
More languagesFewer languages
- middle class in Kannada
- ಮಧ್ಯಮವರ್ಗ, ನಡುಶ್ರೇಣಿ
- middle class in Tagalog
- panggitnang uri, panggitnang na klase
- middle class in Arabic
- طَبَقَة وُسْطَى ṭabaqa wusṭā
- middle class in Persian
- طبقه متوسط tabaqe-ye motavasset
- middle class in Thai
- ชนชั้นกลาง
Synonyms of middle class
- middling class
- middling sort
Forms of middle class
| plural | middle classes |
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Words formed from middle class
Questions about middle class
- What does middle class mean?
- Middle class means a social and economic class lying above the working class and below the upper class.
- What is middle class in Hindi?
- Middle class in Hindi is मध्यवर्ग (madhyavarg). See Middle class meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is middle class?
- Middle class is a noun.
- What is the plural of middle class?
- The plural of middle class is middle classes.
Words near middle class in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: middle class (page history and authors); middle class (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); middle class (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); middle class (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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