'Bourgeois' definitions:
Definition of 'bourgeois'
(from WordNet)
adjective
(according to Marxist thought) being of the property- owning class and exploitive of the working class
adjective
Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: bourgeois, conservative, materialistic]
adjective
Belonging to the middle class
noun
A capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise [syn: businessperson, bourgeois]
noun
A member of the middle class [syn: bourgeois, burgher]
Definition of 'Bourgeois'
From: GCIDE
- Bourgeois \Bour*geois"\, n. [From 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bourgeois'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster] a. Characteristic of the middle class, as in France. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'bourgeois'
From: GCIDE
- capitalistic \capitalistic\ adj.
- 1. Of or relating to capitalism or capitalists. capitalistic methods and incentives
- Syn: capitalist. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. Favoring or practicing capitalism. [Narrower terms: bourgeois] socialistic
- Syn: capitalist. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'bourgeois'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accordant,
- anal,
- anal character,
- arriviste,
- average,
- average man,
- Babbitt,
- Babbittish,
- big-city man,
- boor,
- bounder,
- burgess,
- burgher,
- cad,
- campy,
- capitalist,
- churl,
- city dweller,
- city man,
- city slicker,
- clown,
- Cockney,
- common,
- common man,
- commoner,
- commonplace,
- compulsive,
- compulsive character,
- concordant,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- conventional,
- conventionalist,
- corresponding,
- epicier,
- Everyman,
- exurbanite,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- free-enterprise,
- garden,
- garden-variety,
- general,
- greedy,
- groundling,
- guttersnipe,
- harmonious,
- high-camp,
- homely,
- homespun,
- hooligan,
- ill-bred fellow,
- in accord,
- in keeping,
- in line,
- in step,
- individualistic,
- John Smith,
- kitschy,
- kosher,
- little fellow,
- little man,
- looby,
- lout,
- low fellow,
- low-camp,
- materialistic,
- methodologist,
- Middle American,
- middle-class,
- middle-class type,
- model child,
- money-hungry,
- mucker,
- no great shakes,
- nonsocialistic,
- normal,
- nouveau riche,
- oppidan,
- ordinary,
- organization man,
- orthodox,
- parrot,
- parvenu,
- peasant,
- pedant,
- pedantic,
- perfectionist,
- philistine,
- Philistine,
- plastic,
- plastic person,
- pleb,
- plebeian,
- pop,
- popular,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- private-enterprise,
- proletarian,
- propertied,
- public,
- regular,
- ribald,
- roturier,
- rough,
- roughneck,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- run-of-mine,
- run-of-the-mill,
- sheep,
- square,
- straight,
- stuffy,
- suburban,
- suburbanite,
- teenybopper,
- townee,
- towner,
- townfolk,
- townfolks,
- townsman,
- townspeople,
- townswoman,
- traditionalist,
- trimmer,
- unexceptional,
- unnoteworthy,
- unremarkable,
- unspectacular,
- upstart,
- uptight,
- urbanite,
- usual,
- vernacular,
- villager,
- villageress,
- vulgarian,
- vulgarist,
- working-class,
- yes-man,
- yokel