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Bourgeois

Bourgeois Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Bourgeois? [n] a member of the middle class [n] engages in industrial commercial enterprise [adj] belonging to the middle class [adj] conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality" [adj] (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class Synonyms \| Synonyms for Bourgeois: burgher \| businessperson \| capitalist \| capitalistic \| conservative \| materialistic \| middle-class Related Terms \| Find terms related to Bourgeois: accordant \| anal \| anal character \| arriviste \| average \| average man \| Babbitt \| Babbittish \| big-city man \| boor \| bounder \| burgess \| burgher \| cad \| campy \| capitalist \| churl \| city dweller \| city man \| city slicker \| clown \| Cockney \| common \| common man \| commoner \| commonplace \| compulsive \| compulsive character \| concordant \| conformer \| conformist \| conventional \| conventionalist \| corresponding \| epicier \| Everyman \| exurbanite \| formalist \| formalistic \| free-enterprise \| garden \| garden-variety \| general \| greedy \| groundling \| guttersnipe \| harmonious \| high-camp \| homely \| homespun \| hooligan \| ill-bred fellow \| in accord \| in keeping \| in line \| in step \| individualistic \| John Smith \| kitschy \| kosher \| little fellow \| little man \| looby \| lout \| low fellow \| low-camp \| materialistic \| methodologist \| Middle American \| middle-class \| middle-class type \| model child \| money-hungry \| mucker \| no great shakes \| nonsocialistic \| normal \| nouveau riche \| oppidan \| ordinary \| organization man \| orthodox \| parrot \| parvenu \| peasant \| pedant \| pedantic \| perfectionist \| Philistine \| plastic \| plastic person \| pleb \| plebeian \| pop \| popular \| precisian \| precisianist \| precisianistic \| private-enterprise \| proletarian \| propertied \| public \| regular \| ribald \| roturier \| rough \| roughneck \| rowdy \| ruffian \| run-of-mine \| run-of-the-mill \| sheep \| square \| straight \| stuffy \| suburban \| suburbanite \| teenybopper \| townee \| towner \| townfolk \| townfolks \| townsman \| townspeople \| townswoman \| traditionalist \| trimmer \| unexceptional \| unnoteworthy \| unremarkable \| unspectacular \| upstart \| uptight \| urbanite \| usual \| vernacular \| villager \| villageress \| vulgarian \| vulgarist \| working-class \| yes-man \| yokel See Also \| account executive \| account representative \| accountant \| agent \| bourgeoisie \| broker \| businessman \| capitalist \| common man \| common person \| commoner \| comptroller \| controller \| customer's broker \| customer's man \| enterpriser \| entrepreneur \| exporter \| factor \| importer \| man of affairs \| merchandiser \| merchant \| middle class \| petit bourgeois \| provider \| registered representative \| shipper \| supplier Bourgeois In Webster's Dictionary \Bourgeois"\, n. [From a French type founder named Bourgeois, or fr. F. bourgeois of the middle class; hence applied to an intermediate size of type between brevier and long primer: cf. G. bourgeois, borgis. Cf. {Burgess}.] (Print.) A size of type between long primer and brevier. See {Type}. Note: This line is printed in bourgeois type. \Bourgeois"\, n. [F., fr. bourg town; of German origin. See {Burgess}.] A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class. [France.] a. Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.

Bourgeois Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Bourgeois?

[n] a member of the middle class
[n] engages in industrial commercial enterprise
[adj] belonging to the middle class
[adj] conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"
[adj] (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class

Bourgeois In Webster's Dictionary

\Bour*geois"\, n. [From a French type founder named
Bourgeois, or fr. F. bourgeois of the middle class; hence
applied to an intermediate size of type between brevier and
long primer: cf. G. bourgeois, borgis. Cf. {Burgess}.]
(Print.)
A size of type between long primer and brevier. See {Type}.

Note: This line is printed in bourgeois type.


\Bour*geois"\, n. [F., fr. bourg town; of German
origin. See {Burgess}.]
A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping
class. [France.] a. Characteristic of the middle class, as in
France.

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