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1. (n.) bourgeois
a member of the bourgeoisie or middle class.
2. bourgeois
a person who is generally materialistic and concerned with respectability and convention.
3. bourgeois
a shopkeeper or merchant.
4. (adj.) bourgeois
belonging to, characteristic of, or consisting of the middle class.
5. bourgeois
characterized by or concerned with materialism and convention.
Etymology: (1555–65; < MF; OF borgeisburgess)
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| Definition of 'Bourgeois' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) businessperson, bourgeois
a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
2. (adj) bourgeois, burgher
a member of the middle class
3. (adj) bourgeois
(according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
4. (adj) bourgeois, conservative, materialistic
conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
"a bourgeois mentality"
5. (adj) bourgeois
belonging to the middle class
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) Bourgeois
characteristic of the middle class, as in France
2. (noun) Bourgeois
a size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type
3. (noun) Bourgeois
a man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class
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