Bourgeois

Wednesday 19^th October 2016

Bourgeois - /ˈbʊəʒwɑː/

Adjective

1.    Belonging to or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.

2.    (in Marxist contexts) upholding the interests of capitalism; not communist.

Noun
A bourgeois person.

Example sentences

Adjective

‘A rich, bored, bourgeois family’

‘These views will shock the bourgeois critics’

‘Bourgeois society took for granted the sanctity of property’

Noun

‘A self-confessed and proud bourgeois’

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French, from late Latin burgus castle (in medieval Latin fortified town), ultimately of Germanic origin and related to borough. Compare with burgess.

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