A social and economic class lying above the lower class and below the upper middle class.

plural of upper middle class

plural of lower middle class

The countries of the Muslim world, centred on the Middle East and excluding those in Oceania. The Middle East plus Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and North Africa.

The stage of the Indo-Aryan languages following Vedic Sanskrit and preceding the modern Indo-Aryan languages.

Of or pertaining to this stage.

(linguistics, history) The phase of the Egyptian language characterized by Middle Egyptian sentence structure and orthography but occasional use of Late Egyptian vocabulary and forms.

(linguistics, history) The form of Middle Egyptian archaizingly used as a literary language after the vernacular language had changed into Late Egyptian, and later Demotic and Coptic.

Used to boast of a claimed characteristic or proficiency.

plural of middle spotted woodpecker