upper-middle-class

1. 1.

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

   Similarmiddle-class

Questions about upper-middle-class

What does upper-middle-class mean?

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

How many syllables are in upper-middle-class?

upper-middle-class has 5 syllables: up-per--midd-le--class. The stress falls on "midd".

Is upper-middle-class a common word?

upper-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.