bourgeois
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bour·geois
(bʊr-zhwä', bʊr'zhwä') 
n., pl., bourgeois.
n., pl., bourgeois.
- A person belonging to the middle class.
- A person whose attitudes and behavior are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class.
- In Marxist theory, a member of the property-owning class; a capitalist.
- Of, relating to, or typical of the middle class.
- Held to be preoccupied with respectability and material values.
[French, from Old French burgeis, citizen of a town, from bourg, bourg. See bourg.]
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bourgeois
adj
Definition: commonplace
Antonyms: adventurous, imaginative, inspired, nonconforming, original, untraditional
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bourgeois
IN BRIEF: A person of the middle class of society.
She thought of herself as a bourgeois.
Tutor's tip: A "bourgeois" is a male of the middle class, a "bourgeoise" is a female of the middle class, and the "bourgeoisie" is the middle class. The "booboisie" is a class composed of fools and oafs.
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Bourgeois is the adjectival form of bourgeoisie, a social class characterized by their ownership of capital and their related culture.
Bourgeois may also refer to:
- Petite bourgeoisie
- Bourgeois Alternative, Danish political party
- Bourgeois dictatorship, how western countries were portrayed by the Eastern bloc during the Cold War.
- Bourgeois liberalism
- Bourgeois nationalism
- Bourgeois personality
- Bourgeois pseudoscience
- BoBo, or Bobo, abbreviation of bourgeois bohemian, a term popularized by David Brooks in his book Bobos in Paradise
- Antonio Bourgeois, fictional character on the fictional islands San Serriffe, named after the Bourgeois font
- Institutions
- H. L. Bourgeois High School, Gray, Louisiana
- Art, literature and music
- Bourgeois tragedy
- Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, a play by Molière
- Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (Strauss), an orchestral suite by Richard Strauss
- Les Bourgeois, a song (and album) by Jacques Brel
- "The Bourgeois Blues", blues song
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, a film by Luis Buñuel
People
- Surname "Bourgeois"
- Albéric Bourgeois (1876 – 1962), Canadian comic strip artist
- Brent Bourgeois, U.S. rock musician and producer
- Constant Bourgeois, French landscape painter and engraver
- Dana Bourgeois, luthier
- Derek Bourgeois (born 1941), English composer
- Diane Bourgeois (born 1949), Canadian politician
- Douglas Bourgeois (born 1951), American sculptor and painter
- Francis Bourgeois (1756–1811), landscape painter and court painter to George III
- Joël Bourgeois (born 1971), Guyanese-Canadian distance runner
- Léon Bourgeois (1851–1925), French statesman
- Louis Bourgeois (architect) (1856–1930), architect
- Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), artist and sculptor
- Loys (Louis) Bourgeois (c.1510 to 1515–1559 or later), composer
- Paulette Bourgeois (born 1951), Canadian children's writer
- Father Roy Bourgeois, human rights activist
- Siméon Bourgeois (1815–1887), 19th century French Navy officer
- Victor Bourgeois, Belgian Modernist architect
- Surname "Bourgois"
- Philippe Bourgois, a professor of anthropology and the author of ethnographic works
Biology
- Bourgeois is a synonym for these wine grapes:
- Elbling, in the Mosel region
- Gouais blanc, historic white grape
- Bourgeois fish, a common name for Lutjanus sebae, a snapper from the Indo-West Pacific
See also
- All pages beginning with "Bourgeois"
- All pages with titles containing "Bourgeois"
- Bourgeoys (disambiguation)
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Bourgeois
Dansk (Danish)
adj. - småborgerlig-, middelklasse-
n. - spidsborger, borgerlig
Nederlands (Dutch)
burgerlijk, bourgeois, onverdraagzaam
Français (French)
adj. - de bourgeois, de classe moyenne
n. - bourgeois, classe moyenne
Deutsch (German)
adj. - bürgerlich, spießbürgerlich, bourgeois
n. - Bürger, Spießbürger, Bourgeois
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αστός, μπουρζουάς
adj. - αστικός, μπουρζουάδικος
idioms:
- petit bourgeois piccolo borghese
Português (Portuguese)
n., -
adj. - burguês (m)
idioms:
- petit bourgeois pequeno negociante (m) da classe média, pequeno burguês (m)
idioms:
- petit bourgeois мелкий буржуа
Español (Spanish)
adj. - burgués, de la clase media
n. - burgués
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - medelklassare, kälkborgare, Svensson
adj. - (små-)borgerlig
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
中产阶级的, 中产阶级, 资产阶级
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 中產階級的
n. - 中產階級, 資產階級
한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 부르주와의, 속된
n. - 중산 계급의 사람, 자본가, 상공업자
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 中産階級の人, 有産階級の人, 俗物
adj. - 中産階級の, 有産階級の
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) من الطبقه الوسطى (صفه) برجوازي, ما يخص الطبقه الوسطى
עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - רכושני, בורגני
n. - בורגני, בן המעמד הבינוני
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