middle class(n.) 1766, in a British sense, "class of people socially intermediate between the aristocratic and the laboring classes, the community of untitled but well-bred or wealthy people," frommiddle(adj.) +class(n.). As an adjective, "pertaining to the middle class," by 1857, with...
An interval with nothing to do. time was There was once a time: "Time was when [urban gangs] were part of a ... subculture that inner-city adolescence outgrew" (George F. Will). [Middle English, from Old English tīma; see dā- in Indo-European roots.] American Heritage® Dictiona...
4.anything in the first stage of existence or progress. adj. 5.of or pertaining to infants or infancy. 6.being in infancy. 7.being in the earliest stage. [1350–1400; Middle Englishenfaunt< Anglo-French < Latininfantem,acc.infānssmall child, literally, one unable to speak =in-in-3+...
Also used in Middle English of dominant women. From 1530s as "male head of a household." As a title or term of respect or rank, mid-14c. As a title prefixed to the name of a young gentleman or boy of the better class not old enough to be calledMr., short foryoung master(late...
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t bother me in the least. To the contrary, I welcome it in the hope that it will provoke the sort of discussion that has been my goal all along. In the interests of clarity, here is the article that caused the ruckus in the first place. It was submitted on June 14 but never ...
aThe earliest home projection screens were relatively homogonous with one type of coarse screen that could be used in many different circumstances. They came into use in the 1950s with the first step towards today’s modern home theater systems, as middle class families were able to document ...
within" (class III strong verb; past tensebærst, past participleborsten), from a West Germanic metathesis of Proto-Germanic*brest-(source also of Old Saxonbrestan, Old Frisianbersta, Middle Dutchberstan, Low Germanbarsten, Dutchbarsten, Old High Germanbrestan, Germanbersten"to burst")....
The sense of "that which has given birth to anything" is from late Old English; as a familiar term of address to an elderly woman, especially of the lower class, by c. 1200. Mother Natureas a personification is attested from c. 1600;mother earthas an expression of the earth as the ...