a person whose political, economic, and social opinions are believed to be determined mainly by concern for property values and conventional respectability.
a shopkeeper or merchant.
adjective
belonging to, characteristic of, or consisting of the middle class.
conventional; middle-class.
dominated or characterized by materialistic pursuits or concerns.
a member of the middle class, esp one regarded as being conservative and materialistic or (in Marxist thought) a capitalist exploiting the working class
a mediocre, unimaginative, or materialistic person
adjective
characteristic of, relating to, or comprising the middle class
conservative or materialistic in outlooka bourgeois mentality
(in Marxist thought) dominated by capitalists or capitalist interests
Derived Formsbourgeoise (ˈbʊəʒwɑːz, bʊəˈʒwɑːz), fem n
Word Origin for bourgeois
C16: from Old French borjois, burgeis burgher, citizen, from bourg town; see burgess
bourgeois
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noun
(formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 9 point
Word Origin for bourgeois
C19: perhaps from its size, midway between long primer and brevier
Bourgeois
noun
Léon Victor Auguste . (leɔ̃ viktɔr oɡyst). 1851–1925, French statesman; first chairman of the League of Nations: Nobel peace prize 1920
1560s, "of the French middle class," from French bourgeois, from Old French burgeis, borjois "town dweller" (see bourgeoisie). Sense of "socially or aesthetically conventional" is from 1764; in communist and socialist writing, as a noun, "a capitalist" (1883).
It is better to be a good ordinary bourgeois than a bad ordinary bohemian. [Aldous Huxley, 1930]
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