bour ‧ geois /ˈbʊəʒwɑː $ bʊrˈʒwɑː/ BrE AmE adjective
[ Date: 1500-1600 ; Language: French ; Origin: 'person who lives in a town' , from Old French borjois , from borc 'town' , from Latin burgus 'castle, town defended by a wall' ]
1 . belonging to the ↑ middle class :
She came from a bourgeois family.
bourgeois morality
2 . too interested in having a lot of possessions and a high position in society:
the backlash against bourgeois materialism
3 . belonging to or typical of the part of society that is rich, educated, owns land etc, according to Marxism
⇨ proletarian
—bourgeois noun [countable]
⇨ ↑ petty bourgeois