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bour·geois
(bo͝or-zhwä′, bo͝o- bo͝or′zhwä′, bo͝o′-)n. pl. bourgeois
1. A person belonging to the middle class.
2. A person whose attitudes and behavior are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class.
3. In Marxist theory, a member of the property-owning class; a capitalist.
adj.
Of, relating to, or typical of the middle class, especially in holding conventional attitudes and materialistic values.
[French, from Old French burgeis, citizen of a town, from bourg, bourg; see bourg.]
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bourgeois
(ˈbʊəʒwɑː; bʊəˈʒwɑː)n, pl -geois
1. a member of the middle class, esp one regarded as being conservative and materialistic or (in Marxist thought) a capitalist exploiting the working class
2. a mediocre, unimaginative, or materialistic person
adj
3. characteristic of, relating to, or comprising the middle class
4. conservative or materialistic in outlook: a bourgeois mentality.
5. (in Marxist thought) dominated by capitalists or capitalist interests
[C16: from Old French borjois, burgeis burgher, citizen, from bourg town; see burgess]
bourgeoise fem n
bourgeois
(bəˈdʒɔɪs)n
(Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) (formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 9 point
[C19: perhaps from its size, midway between long primer and brevier]
Bourgeois
(French burʒwa)n
(Biography) Léon Victor Auguste (leɔ̃ viktɔr oɡyst). 1851–1925, French statesman; first chairman of the League of Nations: Nobel peace prize 1920
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bour•geois
(bʊərˈʒwɑ, ˈbʊər ʒwɑ)n., pl. -geois,
adj. n.
1. a member of the bourgeoisie or middle class.
2. a person who is generally materialistic and concerned with respectability and convention.
3. a shopkeeper or merchant.
adj. 4. belonging to, characteristic of, or consisting of the middle class.
5. characterized by or concerned with materialism and convention.
[1555–65; < Middle French; Old French borgeis burgess]
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| Noun | 1. |  bourgeois - a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprisecapitalist - a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business) account executive, account representative, customer's broker, customer's man, registered representative - someone in charge of a client's account for an advertising agency or brokerage or other service business businessman, man of affairs - a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) businesswoman - a female businessperson enterpriser, entrepreneur - someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it exporter - a businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale) importer - someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country) merchandiser, merchant - a businessperson engaged in retail trade shipper - someone who ships goods |
| 2. | bourgeois - a member of the middle class bourgeoisie, middle class - the social class between the lower and upper classes petit bourgeois - a member of the lower middle class | |
| Adj. | 1. | bourgeois - (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class capitalistic, capitalist - favoring or practicing capitalism |
| 2. |  bourgeois - conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"middle-class - occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy | |
| 3. | bourgeois - belonging to the middle class middle-class - occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy |
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bourgeois
adjective middle-class, conservative, traditional, conventional, provincial, suburban, small-town, materialistic, conformist, property-owning, hidebound, Pooterish the bourgeois ideology of individualism
Quotations
"The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self" [Hermann Hesse Steppenwolf]
"Destroy him as you will, the bourgeois always bounces up - execute him, expropriate him, starve him out en masse, and he reappears in your children" [Cyril Connolly]
"How beastly the bourgeois is"
"Especially the male of the species" [D.H. Lawrence How Beastly the Bourgeois Is]
"The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self" [Hermann Hesse Steppenwolf]
"Destroy him as you will, the bourgeois always bounces up - execute him, expropriate him, starve him out en masse, and he reappears in your children" [Cyril Connolly]
"How beastly the bourgeois is"
"Especially the male of the species" [D.H. Lawrence How Beastly the Bourgeois Is]
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bourgeois
adj → bürgerlich; (pej) → spießbürgerlich, spießig
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