Definitions for Bourgeois

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Bourgeois bour·geois

Spelling: [boo r-zhwah, boo r-zhwah; Bourgeois is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 353 anagrams from letters in Bourgeois (begioorsu).

Definitions for Bourgeois

noun

1. a member of the middle class.
2. a person whose political, economic, and social opinions are believed to be determined mainly by concern for property values and conventional respectability.
3. a shopkeeper or merchant.
4. a size of type approximately 9-point, between brevier and long primer.
5. Léon Victor Auguste [ley-awn veek-tawr oh-gyst] /leɪˈɔ̃ vikˈtɔr oʊˈgyst/ (Show IPA), 1851–1925, French statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1920.
6. Louise, 1911–2010, U.S. sculptor, born in France.

adjective

1. belonging to, characteristic of, or consisting of the middle class.
2. conventional; middle-class.
3. dominated or characterized by materialistic pursuits or concerns.

Origin of Bourgeois

1555-65; Middle French; Old French borgeis burgess

Examples for Bourgeois

The crowd, we soon discovered, was bourgeois in the extreme.

Whereupon the two aristocrats despised the bourgeois Regnier.

My godfather made a great fuss of her, for success was everything to this bourgeois.

Diaspora always meant tragedy; you think you can be a good German bourgeois, but that way lie the death camps.

Our second visit brought us into contact with the bourgeois element.

Many historians have leveled criticism at the Code, arguing that it was too conservative and supportive of the bourgeois.

I confess to being surprised at the reaction to yesterday's article on the boring, bourgeois future of gay marriage.

Go all your life dressed like a bourgeois and they'll never call you "My dear gentleman."

That's right, I said it: this is a landmark victory for the forces of staid, bourgeois sexual morality.

Part of that bourgeois dream involved white people getting to live out their fantasies of having black servants.