upper-middle-class
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4.2
- adjective
- /ˈʌpərˈmɪdəlklæs/
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- The socioeconomic levels of the district range from urban welfare families to upper-middle-class professionals.
- upper-middle-class family
- upper-middle-class neighborhood
- middle- or upper-middle-class
So you live in a middle class, upper middle class or rich suburb.
- So you live in a middle class, upper middle class or rich suburb.
- I mean, I, I had a very regular upper middle class, middle class upbringing.
- I grew up upper middle class, no friction anywhere.
- And in our neighborhood, it was pretty upper middle class, middle class in most of the town.
- So for this data, I turn to the authoritative site on white upper middle class urban culture stuff white people like.
- We were up, I would say a middle class family and a middle class, upper middle class suburb.
- So it's set up as that, you know, as that traditional kind of upper middle class family home that's successful.
- Like, at the end of the day, you and I know this because we grew up in upper middle class, upper class white circles.
- And so, you know, we were sort of climbing into, you know, solidly middle class and even upper middle class territory.
- In fact, he grew up in a, he was a middle class and grew up in an upper middle class sort of school district.
- And it was when like women who were upper middle class, you know, striving to portray themselves kind of to adopt, you know, as, as the elites, right?
- But also, it's very difficult to do this with if you're a upper middle class entrepreneur type person with a family of five.
- It is a subscription product for upper middle class, largely white liberals who live the same circumstances across the United States and in Europe.
- She doesn't sit down and say, reader, I'm an upper middle class girl from X plays or, you know, so on it.
- She doesn't sit down and say, reader, I'm an upper middle class girl from X place or, you know, so on it.
Examples
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The study was conducted in a suburban southeastern school district with a middle and upper-middle-class socioeconomic environment.
Academic text (2002) -
She'd been raised in the Church of England, in a calm, upper-middle-class family.
Fiction book (1990) -
And are they from upper middle class or lower class?
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But it is also a strategy that is available to a more middle class or upper middle class audience.
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And it's like, you know, very, very upper middle class, very white and Asian.
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And in our neighborhood, it was pretty upper middle class, middle class in most of the town.
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I grew up upper middle class, no friction anywhere.
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So you live in a middle class, upper middle class or rich suburb.
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Typical upper middle-class background, married, no kids.
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Many families in the neighborhood belong to the upper-middle-class, enjoying comfortable lifestyles and good schools.
Synonyms
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3.2
Of people or families with a moderate income and some education
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3.4
Having enough money to live comfortably
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4.2
People who have plenty of money and live comfortably
Antonyms
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3.9
Having a modest income and social position in the lower part of the middle class
How Wealthy
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4.3
16
4.2
201
3.2
7
3.9
5
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Upper-middle-class is made of three simple parts: upper ('higher'), middle ('in the middle'), and class ('a group by place in society'). So it means the higher part of the middle group, people with better-than-average income, education, and status.