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Definition of Lower-middle-class
1. Adjective. Occupying the lower part of the middle socioeconomic range in a society.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lower-middle-class
Literary usage of Lower-middle-class
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of books printed for private circulation by Bertram Dobell (1906)
"7s 6d 1881 These two poems constitute a faithful and humourous picture of the
ideas and language of the Turkish women of the lower middle-class at the ..."
2. Putnam's Magazine (1907)
"In the lower middle class in England the wife does not, as a rule, help her
husband in ... The French lower middle class has not the same characteristics. ..."
3. Putnam's Magazine (1907)
"In the lower middle class in England the wife does not, as a rule, help her
husband in ... The French lower middle class has not the same characteristics. ..."
4. The Polish Peasant in Europe and America; Monograph of an Immigrant Group by William Isaac Thomas, Florian Znaniecki (1918)
"University instruction and a certain minimum of good manners are, generally
speaking, the criteria delimiting this class from the lower middle class. ..."
5. The Nation as a Business Firm: An Attempt to Cut a Path Through Jungle by William Hurrell Mallock (1910)
"In the second place, as to the lower middle-class, if we consider what its ...
Incomes of wage-earning and lower middle-class combined, about 1888 Such ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly (1878)
"Compared with the same class even in England, the Scottish lower middle class is
most visibly, to vary Mr. Charles Sumner's phrase, leu well-bred, ..."
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