- the social, economic, and cultural class of people thought of as having approximately average status, income, education, tastes, and the like: Life for the middle class includes going to college, getting a job, getting married, buying a house, and raising kids.We intend to put an end to the tax squeeze on the middle class.
- the socioeconomic stratum intermediate between the upper or aristocratic class and the laboring class, made up mostly of business people, professionals, civil servants, and skilled workers, and sometimes further subdivided into the upper middle class and the lower middle class :In the 1950s and 1960s in America, an emphasis on education increased upward mobility, and the middle class expanded.Self-improvement, a strong work ethic, and modesty were among the core moral values of the German middle classes of the early 20th century.
- any intermediate class.
- of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle class; bourgeois: middle-class taste; middle-class morality.
- a social stratum that is not clearly defined but is positioned between the lower and upper classes. It consists of businessmen, professional people, etc, along with their families, and is marked by bourgeois values
- of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle class
