Bourgeois

Bour·geois  (br-zhwä), Léon Victor Auguste 1851-1925.

French statesman who was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague (1903-1925) and helped draft the Covenant of the League of Nations (1919). He won the 1920 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Bourgeois, Louise Born 1911.

French-born American sculptor whose often erotic sculptures are characterized by elongated figures and abstract shapes.

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bour·geois  (br-zhwä, brzhwä)

n. pl. bourgeois

1. A person belonging to the middle class.

2. A person whose attitudes and behavior are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class.

3. In Marxist theory, a member of the property-owning class; a capitalist.

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or typical of the middle class.

2. Held to be preoccupied with respectability and material values.

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[French, from Old French burgeis, citizen of a town, from bourg, bourg; see bourg.]

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bourgeois [boor-zhwah] Often disparaging

Adjective

1. characteristic of or comprising the middle class

2. conservative or materialistic in outlook

3. (in Marxist thought) dominated by capitalism

Noun

pl -geois

a member of the middle class, esp. one regarded as being conservative and materialistic [Old French borjois citizen]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	bourgeois - a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise businessperson capitalist - a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business) accountant, comptroller, controller - someone who maintains and audits business accounts account executive, account representative, customer's broker, customer's man, registered representative - someone in charge of a client's account for an advertising agency or brokerage or other service business broker, factor, agent - a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission businessman, man of affairs - a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) businesswoman - a female businessperson enterpriser, entrepreneur - someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it exporter - a businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale) importer - someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country) merchandiser, merchant - a businessperson engaged in retail trade shipper - someone who ships goods provider, supplier - someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity
	2.	bourgeois - a member of the middle class burgher bourgeoisie, middle class - the social class between the lower and upper classes common man, common person, commoner - a person who holds no title petit bourgeois - a member of the lower middle class
Adj.	1.	bourgeois - (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class capitalistic, capitalist - favoring or practicing capitalism
	2.	bourgeois - conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality" materialistic, conservative middle-class - occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy
	3.	bourgeois - belonging to the middle class middle-class - occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy

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bourgeois

adjective middle-class, traditional, conventional, materialistic, hidebound, Pooterish

Translations

bourgeois [ˈbueʒwɑː] adj, n → burgués/esa m/f

bourgeois [ˈbuəʒwɑː] adj, n → bourgeois(e)

bourgeois [ˈbuəʒwɑː] adj → bürgerlich, spießig (pej)

n → Bürger(in) m(f), Bourgeois m

bourgeois [ˈbuəʒwɑː] adj, n → borghese (m/f)