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(informal) someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow
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middlebrow
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1911 (adj.), 1912 (n.), from middle + brow (compare highbrow , lowbrow ).\n\n[T]here is an alarmingly wide chasm, I might almost say a vacuum, between the high-brow, who considers reading either as a trade or as a form of intellectual wrestling, and the ...
Wikipedia
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The term middlebrow describes both a certain type of easily accessible art , often literature , as well as (more negatively) the population that uses art to acquire culture and class that is usually unattainable. First used by the British satire magazine ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Yan's cooking program appeals to middlebrow cooks rather than gourmets. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ She has a more middlebrow talent than his, and therefore seems less inclined toward introspection and reiteration.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context pejorative English) Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between. n. A person or thing that is neither a highbrow or lowbrow, but in between.
Usage examples of middlebrow.
This last, a middle-age, upper-middle-class, middlebrow detective, is a prototype for Agatha Christie's Miss Jane Marple and other female amateur investigators of the golden age of detective fiction.
The paperbacks are those any literate, middlebrow person might have accumulated: novels by Kingsley Amis, Raymond Chandler, Catherine Cookson and Ruth Rendell, together with a selection of vegetarian cookery books.
He has no middlebrow following: his fans are to be found either in the street or in the screening-room.