lower-middle-class

1. 1.

   occupying the lower part of the middle socioeconomic range in a society

   Similarmiddle-class

Questions about lower-middle-class

What does lower-middle-class mean?

lower-middle-class means "occupying the lower part of the middle socioeconomic range in a society".

How many syllables are in lower-middle-class?

lower-middle-class has 5 syllables and divides as lo-wer--midd-le--class under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is lower-middle-class a common word?

lower-middle-class is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.