WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
mid•cult
(mid′kult′),USA pronunciation n.
adj.
- Sociology(sometimes cap.) the intellectual culture intermediate between highbrow and lowbrow;
middlebrow culture.
adj.
- Sociologyof, pertaining to, or characteristic of such culture.
- 1955–60, American; mid(dle-brow) cult(ure); see masscult
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