Bourgeois

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A person belonging to the middle class.
  • n. A person whose attitudes and behavior are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class.
  • n. In Marxist theory, a member of the property-owning class; a capitalist.
  • adj. Of, relating to, or typical of the middle class.
  • adj. Held to be preoccupied with respectability and material values.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or relating to the middle class, especially its attitudes and conventions.
  • adj. Belonging to the middle class.
  • adj. Conventional, conservative and materialistic.
  • adj. Of or relating to capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.
  • n. The middle class.
  • n. An individual member of the middle class.
  • n. A person with bourgeois values and attitudes.
  • n. An individual member of the bourgeoisie, one of the three estates.
  • n. Anyone deemed to be an exploiter of the proletariat, a capitalist.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A size of type between long primer and brevier. See type.
  • n. A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class.
  • n. See 1st bourgeois.
  • n. A burgess; a citizen. See 2d bourgeois.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In France, a citizen; a burgher; a man of middle rank.
  • n. A small French coin of the fourteenth century.
  • Belonging to or consisting of trades-people or citizens of middle rank: as, bourgeois surroundings; the bourgeois class of France.
  • Wanting in dignity or refinement; common; mean.
  • n. A size of printing-type measuring about 100 lines to the foot, next larger than brevier and smaller than long-primer.
  • n. This line is printed in bourgeois.
  • n. See bourgeois.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
  • adj. belonging to the middle class
  • adj. (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
  • n. a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
  • n. a member of the middle class
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