noun🔗Share(usually in the plural) The middle class."The bourgeois were worried about the rising cost of school supplies for their children. "politicsculturesocietyhistoryeconomygrouppersonChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAn individual member of the middle class."The new bourgeois family bought a large house in the suburbs. "personsocietyculturehistoryeconomybusinesspoliticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share(usually derogatory) A person of any class with bourgeois (i.e., overly conventional and materialistic) values and attitudes."The new student, a recent immigrant, felt alienated by the bourgeois attitudes of her classmates, who prioritized expensive clothes and social status above all else. "personattitudecharacterculturesocietyeconomyvalueChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share(history) An individual member of the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime."The bourgeois family, with its comfortable home and well-paying jobs, represented the growing middle class in pre-revolutionary France. "historypersonpoliticssocietystateChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA capitalist, (usually derogatory) an exploiter of the proletariat."The bourgeois businessman exploited the factory workers, paying them very low wages to maximize his profits. "politicseconomysocietyphilosophyhistorypersonChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo make bourgeois."The company's new marketing campaign aimed to bourgeois the image of their product, making it appeal to middle-class values of comfort and status. "culturesocietyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareOf or relating to the middle class, their presumed overly conventional, conservative, and materialistic values."bourgeois opinion"culturesocietyvalueattitudephilosophyhistoryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareOf or relating to the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime."During the French Revolution, the bourgeois class, composed of merchants and professionals, sought political power equal to that of the aristocracy. "politicshistorygroupsocietyeconomystateChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareOf or relating to the capitalist class, (usually derogatory) the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat."The wealthy bourgeois family's expectations for their children at school were vastly different from the working-class students'. "politicseconomysocietyphilosophyhistorycultureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA size of type between brevier and long primer, standardized as 9-point.""The body text of the pamphlet was set in bourgeois, making it comfortable to read." "typelanguagewritingtechnicalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
