BOURGEOIS


Meaning of BOURGEOIS in English

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

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