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^[1], 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

• Afrikaans: middelklas
• 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)
• Haitian Creole: klas mwayèn
• Hindi: मध्यम वर्ग m (madhyam varg)
• Hungarian: középosztály (hu), polgárság (hu)
• Irish: meánaicme f
• Japanese: 中産階級 (ja) (ちゅうさんかいきゅう, chūsan kaikyū)
• Kazakh: орта тап (orta tap)
• Khmer: ថ្នាក់កណ្ដាល (thnak kɑndaal)
• Korean: 중산층(中産層) (ko) (jungsancheung)
• 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
• Swahili: tabaka la kati
• 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