bourgeois

Speech parts

1. bourgeois - Noun

2. bourgeois - Adjective

3. bourgeois - Verb

4. bourgeois - Adjective Satellite

5. Bourgeois - Proper noun

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

materialistic philistine square burgher conventional conservative bourgeoisie stuffy conformist businessperson middle class conventionalist orthodox democrat burgess
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Antonyms

bohemian maverick left individual liberal aristocratic
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Hypernyms

capitalist commoner common man common person

Hyponyms

comptroller merchandiser factor agent merchant controller

Phrases with the word

bourgeois taste little bourgeois complacent bourgeois

Examples

The 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

Close letter words and terms

Bourg-en-Bresse Bourg-Saint-Maurice Bourgault bourgeois taste bourgeoise bourgeoisie