Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: middle-class
IPA transcription: [m'ɪdəlkl'æs]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: middle-class
    Meaning: occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy
Usage examples
  • Surrounded by the comforts of middle-class respectability, and profoundly oppressed, even in his youth, by the Puritan ideals of the household, he sometimes experienced a sense of suffocation.
  • At the side of the road stood a travel-stained middle-class automobile, with a miscellany of dusty luggage, rugs and luncheon things therein--a family automobile with father no doubt at the wheel.