Bourgeois

What do we mean by bourgeois?

A person belonging to the middle class. noun

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

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

Of, relating to, or typical of the middle class, especially in holding conventional attitudes and materialistic values. adjective

See bourgeois. noun

A size of printing-type measuring about 100 lines to the foot, next larger than brevier and smaller than long-primer. noun

This line is printed in bourgeois. noun

In France, a citizen; a burgher; a man of middle rank. noun

A small French coin of the fourteenth century. noun

Belonging to or consisting of trades-people or citizens of middle rank: as, bourgeois surroundings; the bourgeois class of France.

Wanting in dignity or refinement; common; mean.

A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class. noun

A size of type between long primer and brevier. See type. noun

See 1st bourgeois. noun

A burgess; a citizen. See 2d bourgeois. noun

Of or relating to the middle class, especially its attitudes and conventions. adjective

Belonging to the middle class. adjective

Conventional, conservative and materialistic. adjective

Of or relating to capitalist exploitation of the proletariat. adjective

The middle class. noun

(usually in the plural) The middle class.

An individual member of the middle class.

(usually derogatory) A person of any class with bourgeois (i.e., overly conventional and materialistic) values and attitudes.

(history) An individual member of the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.

A capitalist, (usually derogatory) an exploiter of the proletariat.

Adj. When pronounced "BOO-zhee" (soft-j sound like in French) refers to a quality of (sometimes mildly) snobby-without-realizing-it, upper-middle-class sensibilities. Usually associated with upper-middle-income white people, but not necessarily. Can involve driving the right car, getting the right (healthy or gourmet) foods, having a professional/white-collar job, always having "nice" things, $4 lattes at Starbucks or elsewhere because you think you're above Starbucks, having a well-diversified stock portfolio and other retirement savings, having a special set of dishes and everything else just for Christmas, status-symbol kids or pets, carbon offsets, thinking $15 wine is cheap, listening to NPR, and gentrifying neighborhoods. Even though not all of these things may be bad and some of them could be done by anybody (like healthy food or looking down on Starbucks), it's a certain combination and a certain attitude that goes along with it that you know when you see. As with many type-of-people-describing things, there can be some overlap with other things, yuppy stuff and hipster stuff especially (although hipsters tend to be associated with 20-somethings, and yuppies tend to be younger-middle-age; bourgeois has more of an association with younger-middle-age-thru-older-middle-age); can be distinguished from super-rich stuff; some people might do bourgeois things occasionally or do things in a bourgeois way, but some people are just bourgeois and usually don't realize it. Urban Dictionary

According to Karl Marx, there were only two classes: those controlling the means of power and those not. The bourgeois were those who controlled the political system, creating laws and values that would ensure their control of power over the proletariat working class. Urban Dictionary

Originally refers to the middle class people in a capitalist society, however now used to refer to posh people. Urban Dictionary

The quality of being extravagant or hoity-toity. Originally used by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to describe the class antagonism in Europe at the end of the 19th century. Urban Dictionary

According to Karl Marx, there were only two classes: those controlling the means of power and those not. The bourgeois were those who controlled the political system, creating laws and values that would ensure their control of power over the proletariat working class. Urban Dictionary

A slang term for any amount of middle grade marijuana coined from the term "bourgeoisie" for the french middle class Urban Dictionary

Group of skeezers, like the song they play in abercrombie that says "We will dance all day with the bourgeois". Pronounced booj waah zee. Urban Dictionary

Bourgeoisie, in todays terms, means middle-class, and is usually used as a pejorative term for the materialistic, rather affluent, conventional-minded part of society that "feels" on the upper levels. This group is hierarchically narrow-minded and overly-concerned with the idea of social levels, despising everything and everyone that doesn't "measure up" socially and/or financially. When making new acquaintances, they normally put an exceptionally high-priority on well-established backgrounds, traditional manners (feeling therewith aristocratic, according to their clichées), and wealth and social status. Utterly socially pedantic themselves, they'll always be afraid of what may seem unconventional or considered socially odd. The term refers by no means to the genuine aristocratic stratum, which would be considered the true upper class. Although the aristocracy might display a certain elitism, the true aristocrat, being well-read, travelled around the world, and having had a top-class well-rounded (and not only business-oriented) education, is curious and fascinated by the multifacetedness of life, and the fact that the world cannot be reduced to a hierarchical structure lubricated by money. A true aristocrat will have a mind affine to philosophy, literature and art. Fine Art, as a form of human expression and heritage, and not as a sign of social status and prestige (which is the way the bourgeoisie acts towards renowned art, trying to emulate "aristocratic tendencies"). Urban Dictionary

According to Marx and Engels, the Bourgeois class, also called the Bourgeoisie, is a term for those who make money off of other people's labor, rather than doing their own labor. Typically in reference to rich people. Urban Dictionary

Short for Bourgeoisie, it's a name for middle class; music is what makes them come together Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to bourgeois:
bourgeois, burgeois, bourgeons, bourgois, burgeons, bourgeon, bourgeoise, bourges, bourgeoises, bourgoin.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word bourgeois:
proletarian, bourgeoisie, proletariat, liberalization, capitalist, liberalism, nationalism, fjord, marxism, capitalism, marxist, ideology, fascism, lenin, marx, aristocratic, socialism, sphere, morality, democracy, communism, peasant, revolution, socialist, realism, tragedy, louise, nationalist, lifestyle, nobility, communist, values, revolutionary, parties, radical, belgian, class, intellectual, pierre, society, classification, les, soviet, moral, struggle, ideas, des, sculpture, jean, paris, culture, wealth.

Words that rhyme with bourgeois:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe bourgeois:
petty, french, rich, good, wealthy, more, little, liberal, modern, young, petit, typical, respectable, german, most, individual, parisian, big, anti, radical, national, honest, urban, century, prosperous, european, ordinary, solid, average, upper, less, provincial, worthy, grand, roman, comfortable, reactionary, western, minded, russian, democratic, fat, successful, revolutionary, conservative, mere, non, rural, ambitious, called, enlightened, victorian, vulgar, complacent, anicet, socialistic, progressive, intelligent, decadent, pre, conventional, capitalist, smug, stupid, aspiring.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective bourgeois:
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Words that sound like bourgeois:
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