Bourgeois

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  • noun. A person belonging to the middle class.
  • noun. A person whose attitudes and behavior are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class.
  • noun. In Marxist theory, a member of the property-owning class; a capitalist.
  • adjective. Of, relating to, or typical of the middle class, especially in holding conventional attitudes and materialistic values.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A size of printing-type measuring about 100 lines to the foot, next larger than brevier and smaller than long-primer.
  • noun. This line is printed in bourgeois.
  • noun. In France, a citizen; a burgher; a man of middle rank.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. See bourgeois.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class.
  • noun. A size of type between long primer and brevier. See type.
  • noun. See 1st bourgeois.
  • noun. A burgess; a citizen. See 2d bourgeois.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of or relating to the middle class, especially its attitudes and conventions.
  • adjective. Belonging to the middle class.
  • adjective. Conventional, conservative and materialistic.
  • adjective. Of or relating to capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.
  • noun. The middle class.
  • noun. An individual member of the middle class.
  • noun. A person with bourgeois values and attitudes.
  • noun. An individual member of the bourgeoisie, one of the three estates.
  • noun. Anyone deemed to be an exploiter of the proletariat, a capitalist.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
  • adjective. belonging to the middle class
  • adjective. (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
  • noun. a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
  • noun. a member of the middle class
  • Word Usage
    "_Le bourgeois et sa dame_ would watch them with kindly interest, deeming it a kindness not to tell them that there were no trains after twelve; and when the lovers at last determined that they must depart, _le bourgeois_ and _la bourgeoise_ would tell them that their room was quite ready, that there was no possibility of returning to Paris that night."
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