Of middle rank.

Designating or relating to persons of moderate means or the middle class. Now chiefly in middling class n., middling interest n. at compounds.

That is a bourgeois (sense A. 1a); of, relating to, or belonging to the middle class (originally of France).

= petit bourgeois, n. adj.

Usually with hyphen(s). Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the lower middle class.

Of, relating to, or designating the middle class.

= bourgeois, adj.

Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the lower-middle classes; = petit bourgeois, adj.

Of, relating to, or characterized by this social group. Frequently with hyphens.

Belonging to, relating to, or characteristic of the lower-middle class; conservative, conventional. See also petty bourgeois, adj.

Middle-class; genteel, respectable; (depreciative) having pretensions to middle-class status or gentility. Also: of or characteristic of people of…

Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the upper-middle class; = high bourgeois n. adj.(b) at high, adj. n.2compounds 4. Cf. petit bourgeois, adj.…

Bourgeois, middle-class; exhibiting characteristics attributed to the middle class.