Definition & Meaning of "Bourgeois"

bourgeois

/bˈʊəʒwɑː/

/ˈbʊɹʒwɑ/, /bʊɹʒˈwɑ/

someone who belongs to the middle class and is often seen as having conventional or materialistic attitudes

the capitalist class who own businesses and exploit workers for profit, according to Marxist theory

(according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class

belonging to the middle class

conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

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