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Bourgeois - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Bourgeois : adj
1: (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning
class and exploitive of the working class
2: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle
class; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: conservative, materialistic]
3: belonging to the middle class
(noun)
1: a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
[syn: businessperson]
2: a member of the middle class [syn: burgher]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Bourgeois : \Bour*geois"\, n. [Based on a French type founder named
Bourgeois, or fr. F. bourgeois of the middle class; hence
applied to an intermediate size of type between brevier and
long primer: cf. G. bourgeois, borgis. Cf. Burgess.]
(Print.)
A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.
Note: This line is printed in bourgeois type.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Bourgeois : \Bour*geois"\, n. [F., fr. bourg town; of German
origin. See Burgess.]
A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping
class. [France.] a. Characteristic of the middle class, as in
France.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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