i., s. burjuva, kentsoylu

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bourgeois
A person with bourgeois values and attitudes
The middle class
Belonging to the middle class
Of, or related to capitalist exploitation of the working class
the propertied middle class
a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
a member of the middle class
DEFINITION ALSO
[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
Characteristic of the middle class, as in France
disapproval If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle-class people. He's accusing them of having a bourgeois and limited vision. see also petit bourgeois. French-born American sculptor whose often erotic sculptures are characterized by elongated figures and abstract shapes
{s} materialistic, conventional, middle class
A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class
(according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
of or related to middle class attitudes and conventions
conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"
a member of the middle class belonging to the middle class conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality" (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
A size of type between long primer and brevier
i., s. burjuva, kentsoylu
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