What is another word for middle classes?

Pronunciation: [mˈɪdə͡l klˈasɪz] (IPA)

The middle classes are a group of individuals who are considered to be between the wealthy and the poor. There are a number of different synonyms for the word "middle classes", including the middle class, the bourgeoisie, the salariat, and the white-collar class. Another term that is often used to describe this group is the "professional class", which refers to those individuals who are employed in skilled professions such as medicine, law, or engineering. Other synonyms for the middle classes include the educated class, the managerial class, and the affluent class, all of which suggest a certain level of education or wealth. Whatever term is used to describe them, the middle classes are an important social group that plays a crucial role in society and the economy.

What are the hypernyms for Middle classes?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Middle classes

  • Comfort came in with the middle classes.
    Clive Bell
  • One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
    E. M. Forster
  • Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
    Arthur Hertzberg
  • Louis Althusser puts it this way: because "class instinct is subjective and spontaneous," the class instinct of the middle classes and "" must undergo a painful and "revolutionary" transformation in order to become oppositional—that is, in order to become aligned with the methodology of the oppressed.
    Chela Sandoval
  • Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.
    Mahatma Gandhi

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