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bourgeois

adjectifnomverbenomattesté dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//ˈbɔːʒ.wɑː//
  • Royaume-Uni//ˈbʊəʒ.wɑː//
  • Royaume-Uni//bəːˈdʒɔɪs//
  • États-Unis//bʊɹʒˈwɑː//
  • États-Unis//bəɹˈd͡ʒɔɪs//

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

adjectif

  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

    historiqueOf 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.

Étymologie

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.

nom

  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.

verbe

  1. 1

    To make bourgeois.

nom

  1. 1

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

Étymologie

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.

Formes

comparatif
more bourgeois
superlatif
most bourgeois
passé
bourgeoised
participe passé
bourgeoised
participe présent
bourgeoising
3ᵉ personne du singulier
bourgeoises
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Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

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