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bourgeois

AdjektivSubstantivVerbSubstantivin Dialogen belegt

  • Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈbɔːʒ.wɑː//
  • Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈbʊəʒ.wɑː//
  • Vereinigtes Königreich//bəːˈdʒɔɪs//
  • Vereinigte Staaten//bʊɹʒˈwɑː//
  • Vereinigte Staaten//bəɹˈd͡ʒɔɪs//

Of or relating to the middle class (often derogatory), and their presumed overly conventional, conservative, and materialistic values.

Adjektiv

  1. 1

    Of or relating to the middle class (often derogatory), and their presumed overly conventional, conservative, and materialistic values.

    bourgeois opinion

    It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.

    The increasing social interactions between the two nations through religion, court and commerce would expose differences in speech too and would soon deepen bourgeois Scots’ deteriorating perception of their own tongue.

  2. 2

    historischOf or relating to the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.

  3. 3

    Of or relating to the capitalist class, (usually derogatory) the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.

    Bogdanov did not explain what proletarian astronomy or integral calculus would be like, but he declared that if workers had difficulty in mastering the various sciences without long, specialized study it was chiefly because bourgeois scientists had erected artificial barriers of method and vocabulary so that the workers should not learn their secrets.

Herkunft

Unadapted borrowing from French bourgeois (“a class of citizens who were wealthier members of the Third Estate”), from Old French burgeis (“town dweller”), from Frankish *burg, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold; city”) (whence borough). Doublet of burgess; compare also burgish.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    The middle class.

  2. 2

    seltenAn individual member of the middle class.

  3. 3

    A person of any class with bourgeois (i.e., overly conventional and materialistic) values and attitudes.

  4. 4

    An individual member of the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.

  5. 5

    A capitalist, (usually derogatory) an exploiter of the proletariat.

    Der Bourgeois sieht in seiner Frau ein bloßes Produktionsinstrument. Er hört, daß die Produktionsinstrumente gemeinschaftlich ausgebeutet werden sollen, und kann sich natürlich nichts anderes denken, als daß das Los der Gemeinschaftlichkeit die Weiber gleichfalls treffen wird.

    Нет ничего характернее для буржуа, как перенесение черт современных порядков на все времена и народы.

Verb

  1. 1

    To make bourgeois.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    veraltendA size of type between brevier and long primer, standardized as 9-point.

Herkunft

From Middle English burjois, from French Bourgois, probably from Bourges (a city in France) + -ois (forming adjectives) but possibly from bourgeois above or after Jean de Bourgeois who worked as a printer in Rouen c. 1500.

Formen

Komparativ
more bourgeois
Superlativ
most bourgeois
Präteritum
bourgeoised
Partizip II
bourgeoised
Partizip I
bourgeoising
3. Person Singular
bourgeoises
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