| 单词 | middle class |
| 释义 | middle classnoun 1. Also called: bourgeoisie a social stratum that is not clearly defined but is positioned between the lower and upper classes. It consists of businesspeople, professional people, etc, along with their families, and is marked by bourgeois values Compare lower class, upper class, working class adjective middle-class 2. of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle class middle-class(ˈmɪdəl klɑːs) adjective 1. of or relating to the middle class He is rapidly losing the support of blue-collar voters and of middle-class conservatives. Green was born into a comfortable middle-class home. a highly personal record of middle-class life a hundred years ago All the best revolutionaries have been middle-class. her affluent middle-class and aristocratic patients 2. used to refer to attitudes or views that are characteristic of the middle class and are considered to be conventional, materialistic, or boring behaviour which is liable to outrage middle-class morality She had a very middle-class upbringing. |
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