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Definitions for bourgeoisie
ˌbʊər ʒwɑˈzibour·geoisie

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. middle class, bourgeoisienoun

    the social class between the lower and upper classes

Wiktionary

  1. bourgeoisienoun

    a class of citizens who were wealthier members of the Third Estate

  2. bourgeoisienoun

    The capitalist class.

  3. Etymology: From bourgeois, from bourgeois, “burghers”, i.e., inhabitants of towns.

Wikipedia

  1. Bourgeoisie

    The bourgeoisie ( (listen) BOORZH-wah-ZEE, French: [buʁʒwazi] (listen)) is a social class, equivalent to the middle or upper middle class. They are distinguished from, and traditionally contrasted with, the proletariat by their affluence, and their great cultural and financial capital. They are sometimes divided into a petty (petite), middle (moyenne), large (grande), upper (haute), and ancient (ancienne) bourgeoisie and collectively designated as "the bourgeoisie". The bourgeoisie in its original sense is intimately linked to the existence of cities, recognized as such by their urban charters (e.g., municipal charters, town privileges, German town law), so there was no bourgeoisie apart from the citizenry of the cities. Rural peasants came under a different legal system. In Marxist philosophy, the bourgeoisie is the social class that came to own the means of production during modern industrialization and whose societal concerns are the value of property and the preservation of capital to ensure the perpetuation of their economic supremacy in society.

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  1. bourgeoisie

    The bourgeoisie is a sociological term that refers to the middle or upper class in society, traditionally composed of business owners, professionals, and those with economic influence or wealth. The term originated from a French word meaning "town dweller" and was coined by Karl Marx to describe a capitalist class who own the majority of the society's wealth and means of production.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Bourgeoisienoun

    the French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade

Wikidata

  1. Bourgeoisie

    Bourgeoisie is a word from the French language, used in the fields of political economy, political philosophy, sociology, and history, which originally denoted the wealthy stratum of the middle class that originated during the latter part of the Middle Ages. The utilization and specific application of the word is from the realm of the social sciences. In sociology and in political science, the noun bourgeoisie and the adjective bourgeois are terms that describe a historical range of socio-economic classes. As such, in the Western world, since the late 18th century, the bourgeoisie describes a social class “characterized by their ownership of capital, and their related culture”; hence, the personal terms bourgeois and bourgeoise culturally identify the man or woman who is a member of the wealthiest social class of a given society, and their materialistic worldview. In Marxist philosophy, the term bourgeoisie denotes the social class who owns the means of production and whose societal concerns are the value of property and the preservation of capital, in order to ensure the perdurance of their economic supremacy in society. Joseph Schumpeter instead saw the creation of new bourgeoisie as the driving force behind the Capitalist engine, particularly entrepreneurs who took risks in order to bring innovation to industries and the economy through the process of Creative Destruction.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Bourgeoisie

    bōōrzh′waw-zē, n. the middle class of citizens, esp. traders. [From Fr. bourgeois, a citizen, often taken as a typical word for the mercantile middle class—used also adjectively, like such in manners or ways of thinking.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Bourgeoisie

    the name given in France to the middle class, professional people, and merchants, as distinguished from the nobles and the peasants, but applied by the Socialists to the capitalists as distinct from the workers.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bourgeoisie in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bourgeoisie in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of bourgeoisie in a Sentence

  1. Mark Levin:

    The vast majority of people are not rising up trying to overthrow the country. It’s not the proletariat, rising up, overthrowing the Bourgeoisie. And it never is, whether it's Cuba or North Korea or China or Russia or any of those so-called revolutions, these are Marxist efforts by a smaller percentage of society to control a larger percentage of society, these are not peasant revolutions.

  2. Giancarlo Caselli:

    Mafiosi do not operate in a vacuum. They are inside, intertwined with a system of relationships, of complicities, without which they could not carry out their criminal activities, without which they could not remain fugitives, they are in relationships that involve professionals, entrepreneurs, public administrators, politicians, individuals who flank their organization and form the so-called Mafia bourgeoisie, or gray zone.

  3. Van Fleet:

    One of the teachers was considered bourgeoisie because she liked to wear pretty clothes, so the students attacked her and spit on her. She was covered with spit… and pretty soon it became violence.

  4. Joo Pedro Stedile:

    Lula has been kidnapped by the bourgeoisie, the ransom is for us to stop fighting. They want to bring the Brazilian people to their knees.

  5. Giancarlo Caselli:

    They are in relationships that involve professionals, entrepreneurs, public administrators, politicians, individuals who flank their organization and form the so-called Mafia bourgeoisie, or gray zone.

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