what does bourgeois mean?
BOURGEOIS as NOUN
- Meaning
- a member of the middle class
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- a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
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Hypernyms(s) bourgeois is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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BOURGEOIS as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- belonging to the middle class
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- Meaning
- conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
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- Meaning
- (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
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