middle-class home
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmiddle-classandhome
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middle-class
adjective
uk/ˌmɪd.əlˈklɑːs/us/ˌmɪd.əlˈklæs/
UK
relating to a social group that consists of well-educated people, such as doctors, lawyers, and teachers, who have good jobs and are not poor, but are not ...
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home
noun
uk/həʊm/us/hoʊm/
the house, apartment, etc. where you live, especially with ...
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(Definition ofmiddle-classandhomefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmiddle-class home
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It can be understood simply as part of the furniture of the tastefulmiddle-classhome.
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Signicantly, however, the model for paternalist relations portrayed in most of these novels is not the landed estate, but themiddle-classhome.
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Themiddle-classhomeand the classed and gendered body were produced through the maintenance of these differences which constructed a hierarchy of value.
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Rybczynski describes how the early modernists strove to eliminate the traces of the past, criticising the comfort and contentment of themiddle-classhome.
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It has reached the state where the system favours the child from themiddle-classhome, from suburbia.
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The other, whom one may call the ringleader, comes, if you please, from amiddle-classhome, or shall it be a working-class home?
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Who is going to decide that, out of a number of applicants, whether they come from the slums or from the hard-pressedmiddle-classhome?
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It is certainly my view that amiddle-classhomecan be much more unsatisfactory in some ways than a working class home.
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I am not talking about the prosperous,middle-classhome.
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I feel that the training, although simple, should fit the home-helps for some of the essential requirements in an ordinary working-class home, or even in amiddle-classhome.
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A person who comes from a stable,middle-classhomeis evidently much less likely to end up in a court than one who comes from a problem family.
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During the chorus he is seen in a normalmiddle-classhome.
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He excelled in characterizingmiddle-classhomelife, with its pleasures and troubles, and had a natural sense of humour, which was the foundation of his delicate delineation of character.
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