1. bourgeois - Noun
2. bourgeois - Adjective
3. bourgeois - Verb
4. bourgeois - Adjective Satellite
5. Bourgeois - Proper noun
A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.
A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class.
Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. Gustave Flaubert
I live a bourgeois life. Mark Ruffalo
Bourgeois political economy ... never gets to see man who is its real subject. It disregards the essence of man and his history and is thus in the profoundest sense not a ‘science of people' but of non-people and of an inhuman world of objects and commodities. Herbert Marcuse
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. Karl Marx
In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism. C. L. R. James
I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live. James Salter