BOURGEOIS

bourgeois

Noun

  1. The middle class.
  2. An individual member of the middle class.
  3. A person with bourgeois values and attitudes.
  4. An individual member of the bourgeoisie, one of the three estates.
  5. Anyone deemed to be an exploiter of the proletariat, a capitalist.
  6. A size of type between long primer and brevier.

Adjective

  1. Of or relating to the middle class, especially its attitudes and conventions.
  2. Belonging to the middle class.
  3. Conventional, conservative and materialistic.
    bourgeois opinion
  4. Of or relating to capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.


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