bourgeois
IPA: bʊrʒwˈɑ
noun
- (politics, collectively, usually in the plural) The middle class.
- (rare) An individual member of the middle class.
- (usually derogatory) A person of any class with bourgeois (i.e., overly conventional and materialistic) values and attitudes.
- (history) An individual member of the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.
- (Marxism) A capitalist, (usually derogatory) an exploiter of the proletariat.
- (printing, dated) A size of type between brevier and long primer, standardized as 9-point.
- A surname from French.
verb
- (transitive) To make bourgeois.
adjective
- Of or relating to the middle class, (often derogatory) their presumed overly conventional, conservative, and materialistic values.
- (historical) Of or relating to the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.
- (Marxism) Of or relating to the capitalist class, (usually derogatory) the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.
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Examples of "bourgeois" in Sentences
- He rejects the bourgeois institutions of literary life.
- Is this bourgeois senate the same as the conservative senate
- I meant the Bourgeois liberals wanted to keep the liberalization.
- He was made bourgeois of Geneva and sat on the Council of 200 in 1537.
- In both the north and the south, a stable petty bourgeois class emerged.
- Bourgeois families came to study the flippant manners of their superiors.
- Main theme of the drama is the antithesis of the proletariat and bourgeois.
- In an industrial bourgeois society, the genre is the novel, a Moll Flanders.
- In France the bourgeois and landowning classes emerged as the dominant power.
- It marked the end of art along with the end of bourgeois norms and practices.
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