noun Download 🔗Share (usually in the plural) The middle class. Examples : "The bourgeois were worried about the rising cost of school supplies for their children. " politics culture society history economy group person Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An individual member of the middle class. Examples : "The new bourgeois family bought a large house in the suburbs. " person society culture history economy business politics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (usually derogatory) A person of any class with bourgeois (i.e., overly conventional and materialistic) values and attitudes. Examples : "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. " person attitude character culture society economy value Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (history) An individual member of the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime. Examples : "The bourgeois family, with its comfortable home and well-paying jobs, represented the growing middle class in pre-revolutionary France. " history person politics society state Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A capitalist, (usually derogatory) an exploiter of the proletariat. Examples : "The bourgeois businessman exploited the factory workers, paying them very low wages to maximize his profits. " politics economy society philosophy history person Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To make bourgeois. Examples : "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. " culture society Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective Download 🔗Share Of or relating to the middle class, their presumed overly conventional, conservative, and materialistic values. Examples : "bourgeois opinion" culture society value attitude philosophy history Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective Download 🔗Share Of or relating to the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime. Examples : "During the French Revolution, the bourgeois class, composed of merchants and professionals, sought political power equal to that of the aristocracy. " politics history group society economy state Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective Download 🔗Share Of or relating to the capitalist class, (usually derogatory) the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat. Examples : "The wealthy bourgeois family's expectations for their children at school were vastly different from the working-class students'. " politics economy society philosophy history culture Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A size of type between brevier and long primer, standardized as 9-point. Examples : ""The body text of the pamphlet was set in bourgeois, making it comfortable to read." " type language writing technical Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading