Bourgeois (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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adjective
  1. having, reflecting, or relating to conventional tastes, opinions, and values believed to be determined mainly by a concern for respectability and material wealth; middle-class: He lived a bohemian lifestyle frowned upon by bourgeois morality.Bored with bourgeois suburbia and starved for authenticity, these progressive millennials are eager to participate in something challenging and important.
  2. belonging to, characteristic of, or consisting of the middle class, especially as viewed in Marxist theory; concerned with ownership of property and maintenance of the status quo, and having or catering to interests opposed to those of the lower or working class: Soviet propaganda treated Democrats and Republicans as interchangeable parts of a bourgeois power structure.
noun, plural bour·geois.
  1. a person with conventional or banal tastes and opinions believed to be determined mainly by a concern for respectability and material wealth: In this movie he portrays a stuffy bourgeois who plays golf and reads all the right business magazines.
  2. a member of the middle class, especially as viewed in Marxist theory.
  3. a shopkeeper or merchant.
noun Printing.
  1. a size of type approximately 9-point, between brevier and long primer.
noun
  1. French statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1920.
  2. U.S. sculptor, born in France.
noun plural -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
adjective
  1. characteristic of, relating to, or comprising the middle class
  2. conservative or materialistic in outlook
  3. (in Marxist thought) dominated by capitalists or capitalist interests
noun
  1. (formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 9 point
noun
  1. Léon Victor Auguste . (leɔ̃ viktɔr oɡyst). 1851–1925, French statesman; first chairman of the League of Nations: Nobel peace prize 1920
Bourgeois (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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