bourgeois
Meanings
Plural: bourgeois
Noun
- a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
- a member of the middle class
- The middle class.
- An individual member of the middle class.
- A person of any class with bourgeois (i.e., overly conventional and materialistic) values and attitudes.
- An individual member of the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.
- A capitalist, (usually derogatory) an exploiter of the proletariat.
- A size of type between brevier and long primer, standardized as 9-point.
Adjective Satellite
- (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
- conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
- "a bourgeois mentality"
- belonging to the middle class
Adj
- Of or relating to the middle class (often derogatory), and their presumed overly conventional, conservative, and materialistic values.
- Of or relating to the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.
- Of or relating to the capitalist class, (usually derogatory) the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.
Verb
- To make bourgeois.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French bourgeois (“a class of citizens who were wealthier members of the Third Estate”), from Old French burgeis (“town dweller”), from Frankish *burg, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold; city”) (whence borough). Doublet of burgess; compare also burgish.
Synonyms
burgher, businessperson, conservative, galliard, materialistic, square
Scrabble Score: 12
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