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middle class
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun middle class has 1 sense
- middle class(n = noun.group) bourgeoisie - the social class between the lower and upper classes; Array is a kind of class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum
has particulars: petit bourgeois, petite bourgeoisie, petty bourgeoisie
THESAURUS
middle class
Middle America, bourgeoisie, burgherdom, common people, common run, common sort, commonage, commonality, commonalty, commoners, commons, fourth-rater, laborers, linendrapers, lower classes, lower middle class, lower orders, lumpen proletariat, mediocrity, middle order, middle orders, no prize, nobody special, nonentity, nothing special, ordinary people, peasantry, plain folks, plain people, proletariat, rank and file, second-rater, shopkeepers, silent majority, small beer, small potatoes, small tradesmen, suburbia, the lower cut, the other half, the third estate, third-rater, tinhorn, toilers, toiling class, upper middle class, vulgus, working class, working people
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