middle class

middle class

See also: middle-class

English

Noun

middle class (plural middle classes)

1. A social and economic class lying above the working class and below the upper class.

   Synonyms: middling class, middling sort

   • 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist‎, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 8 August 2013:

     All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.

2. (in the plural) The groups in society composed of professionals, semi-professionals, and lower to middle managerial level workers.

Derived terms

• lower middle class
• upper middle class

Related terms

• middle-class (adjective)

Translations

social and economic class

Arabic: طَبَقَة وُسْطَى‎ f (ṭabaqa wusṭā) Armenian: միջին խավ (miǰin xav) Belarusian: сярэ́дні клас m (sjarédni klas) Bulgarian: сре́дна кла́са f (srédna klása) Chinese: Mandarin: 中產階級／中产阶级 (zh) (zhōngchǎn jiējí) Czech: střední třída f Danish: middelklasse c Dutch: middenklasse (nl) f Finnish: keskiluokka (fi) French: classe moyenne (fr) f Galician: clase media f Georgian: საშუალო კლასი (sašualo ḳlasi), საშუალო ფენა (sašualo pena) German: Mittelschicht (de) f, Mittelklasse f Greek: αστική τάξη (el) f (astikí táxi) Hindi: मध्यम वर्ग m (madhyam varg) Hungarian: középosztály (hu), polgárság (hu) Irish: meánaicme f Japanese: 中産階級 (ちゅうさんかいきゅう, chūsan kaikyū) Haitian Creole: klas mwayèn Kazakh: орта тап (orta tap) Khmer: ថ្នាក់កណ្ដាល (thnak kɑndaal) Korean: 중산층(中産層) (ko) (jungsancheung) Swahili: tabaka la kati Macedonian: средна класа f (sredna klasa) Norwegian: Bokmål: middelklasse m or f Nynorsk: middelklasse m or f Persian: طبقه متوسط‎ (fa) (tabaqe-ye motavasset) Polish: klasa średnia f Portuguese: classe média (pt) f Romanian: clasă de mijloc f, clasă mijlocie f, clasă medie f Russian: сре́дний класс (ru) m (srédnij klass) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: средња класа f Roman: srednja klasa f Slovak: stredná trieda f Slovene: srednji razred m Spanish: clase media f Swedish: medelklass (sv) c Tagalog: panggitnang uri, panggitnang na klase Telugu: మద్య తరగతి (madya taragati) Thai: ชนชั้นกลาง Turkish: orta sınıf Ukrainian: сере́дній клас m (serédnij klas) Welsh: dosbarth canol (cy) m Yoruba: kò-là-kò-ṣagbe

See also

• bourgeoisie
• bourgie
• white-collar
• yuppie, yuppies

Further reading

• middle class on Wikipedia.Wikipedia