bourgeois (n.)

  1. a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise

    [ Syn: businessperson ]

  2. a member of the middle class

    [ Syn: burgher ]

    bourgeois (adj.)

  1. (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class

  2. conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; a bourgeois mentality

    [ Syn: conservative , materialistic ]

  3. belonging to the middle class

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