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bourgeois::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | conservative, materialistic |
a bourgeois mentality.
bourgeois::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | businessperson |
| Type of | capitalist |
| Has types | account representative, accountant, agent, broker, businessman, businesswoman, account executive, exporter, factor, importer, man of affairs, merchandiser, merchant, provider, registered representative, shipper, supplier, comptroller, controller, customer's broker, customer's man, enterpriser, entrepreneur |
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | burgher |
| Type of | common person, commoner, common man |
| Has types | petit bourgeois |
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Examples of bourgeois
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Bourgeois, a Vietnam veteran, served as a missionary in Bolivia and El Salvador.
From the kentucky.com
Constance is the bourgeois, married mother, carefully groomed and tightly wound.
From the philly.com
But it wasn't really about grammar and punctuation, it was about bourgeois fear.
From the guardian.co.uk
In such places a fury burns that is beyond the cultivated bourgeois imagination.
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Now, put me in many contexts, and I am quite the hand-wringing bourgeois liberal.
From the economist.com
This group used to be considered the bedrock of an American bourgeois morality.
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Bourgeois followed with an RBI-single to score Koshansky and cut the lead to 6-4.
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Vietnam's old communist regime frowned on bourgeois excesses, such as eating out.
From the economist.com
It was a solid bourgeois upbringing, but the boy soon showed a rebellious streak.
From the guardian.co.uk
- (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
- Businessperson: a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
- Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"
- In sociology and political science, bourgeoisie (adjective: bourgeois) describes a range of groups across history. In the Western world, between the late 18th century to now, the bourgeoisie is a social class characterized by their ownership of capital and their related culture. ...
- (bourgeoisness) The state or condition of being bourgeois
- The marxist term for the middle classes whose interest it is to preserve the status quo. The term has therefore come to stand for conventionality per se.
- A person who is a member of the bourgeoisie, or middle social class, and who is characterized by owning property and having an interest in obtaining material possessions.
- [French] an address of formality or politeness in France from the 16th C., usually for a non-noble person. However, a person addressed as NN, bourgeois de [place] might be a noble man who was involved in town affairs and wanted to keep the title bourgeois de [place] to maintain certain tax breaks.
- Originally, a freeman of a medieval town ("bourg"). A self-employed person, as a shopkeeper or businessman. A person whose beliefs, attitudes, and practices are simple and practical. For some reason or another most revolutionaries want to hang them from lampposts. ...
