Bourgeois
['bʊəʒwɑː] or [,bʊr'ʒwɑ]
Definition
(noun.) a member of the middle class.
(adj.) belonging to the middle class .
(adj.) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; 'a bourgeois mentality' .
(adj.) (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class .
Checked by Carmen--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.
(n.) A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class.
(a.) Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.
Edited by Estelle
Definition
n. a kind of printing type larger than brevier and smaller than longprimer.
Editor: Nicolas
Examples
- Everybody--everybody that was noble of course, for as for the bourgeois we could not quite be expected to take notice of THEM--visited his neighbour. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But he won't, she interrupted: he has his equivalent now, in the pleasure of seeing me wear them--quite enough for him: he is only bourgeois. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He was no gypsy but a bourgeois from Valencia. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Leon Bourgeois, insisted lucidly and repeatedly on the logical necessity of such powers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As to me it is all very natural: nothingI suppose, can be fairer game than the young bourgeois doctor; but my mother! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Him you call the man, said she, is bourgeois, sandy-haired, and answers to the name of John! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Je ne serai jamais femme de bourgeois, moi! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Everybody--everybody that was noble of course, for as for the bourgeois we could not quite be expected to take notice of THEM--visited his neighbour. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But he won't, she interrupted: he has his equivalent now, in the pleasure of seeing me wear them--quite enough for him: he is only bourgeois. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He was no gypsy but a bourgeois from Valencia. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Leon Bourgeois, insisted lucidly and repeatedly on the logical necessity of such powers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As to me it is all very natural: nothingI suppose, can be fairer game than the young bourgeois doctor; but my mother! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Him you call the man, said she, is bourgeois, sandy-haired, and answers to the name of John! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Je ne serai jamais femme de bourgeois, moi! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Editor: Madge