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 (French) [burʒwa]

n

(Biographies / Bourgeois, Léon Victor Auguste (1851-1925) M, French, POLITICS: statesman) Léon Victor Auguste. (leɔ̃ viktɔr ogyst). 1851-1925, French statesman; first chairman of the League of Nations: Nobel peace prize 1920

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bourgeois¹ Often disparaging

n pl -geois

1. a member of the middle class, esp one regarded as being conservative and materialistic or (in Marxist thought) a capitalist exploiting the working class

2. a mediocre, unimaginative, or materialistic person

adj

1. characteristic of, relating to, or comprising the middle class

2. conservative or materialistic in outlook a bourgeois mentality

3. (in Marxist thought) dominated by capitalists or capitalist interests

[from Old French borjois, burgeis burgher, citizen, from bourg town; see burgess]

bourgeoise  [ˈbʊəʒwɑːz bʊəˈʒwɑːz] fem n

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bourgeois²

n

(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) (formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 9 point

[perhaps from its size, midway between long primer and brevier]

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, conservative, traditional, conventional, provincial, suburban, small-town, materialistic, conformist, property-owning, hidebound, Pooterish the bourgeois ideology of individualism

Quotations
"The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self" [Hermann Hesse Steppenwolf]
"Destroy him as you will, the bourgeois always bounces up - execute him, expropriate him, starve him out en masse, and he reappears in your children" [Cyril Connolly]
"How beastly the bourgeois is"
"Especially the male of the species" [D.H. Lawrence How Beastly the Bourgeois Is]

Translations

bourgeois [ˈbʊəʒwɑː]

A. ADJ → burgués

B. N → burgués/esa m/f

bourgeois [bʊə^rˈʒwɑː] adj → bourgeois(e)

bourgeois

n → Bürger(in) m(f), → Bourgeois m (esp Sociol); (pej) → Spießbürger(in) m(f), → Spießer m

adj → bürgerlich; (pej) → spießbürgerlich, spießig

bourgeois [ˈbʊəʒwɑː] adj & n → borghese (m/f)