bourgeois

adjective

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

   historicalOf 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.

noun

1. 1

   The middle class.

2. 2

   rareAn 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.

noun

1. 1

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

Forms

comparative

more bourgeois

superlative

most bourgeois

past tense

bourgeoised

past participle

bourgeoised

present participle

bourgeoising

third person singular

bourgeoises