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bourgeois
  1. (politics) The middle class.
  2. (rare) An individual member of the middle class.
  3. (pejorative) A person of any class with bourgeois (i.e., overly conventional and materialistic) values and attitudes.
  4. (historical) An individual member of the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.
  5. (Marxism) A capitalist, (usually pejorative) an exploiter of the proletariat.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “Far from being typical of the Swiss bourgeois his enemies have described, his ideas were highly innovative and far ahead of his time.”
      “My dreams differed from those of the common bourgeois.”
      “The typical bourgeois of the middle years of the century was too busy making money to be bothered with politics.”
bourgeoisie
  1. (historical) A class of citizens who were wealthier members of the third estate.
  2. (Marxism) The capitalist class.
  3. Those who profit more than the profit of their total labor.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Anyway, you're not doing anyone any good by being out of work, even if your old boss is a running dog lackey of the bourgeoisie.”
      “The professional section of the bourgeoisie gradually lost its former autonomy and social distinction.”
      “Equally suggestive is her interpretation of Fanon's withering attack upon the postcolonial national bourgeoisie.”
bourgeoisification
  1. (humorous) The process of adopting or the condition of adopting the characteristics of the bourgeoisie; embourgeoisement.
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    1. “The rapid bourgeoisification of the neighborhood was evident through its increasing number of upscale restaurants and high-end boutiques.”
      “Just as football's bourgeoisification precipitated a surge of books that broke the mould of bland club histories and ghosted autobiographies, another boom parallelled Britain's Olympic cycling success.”
      “In early 1975 he declared himself against abortion, claiming that the so-called sexual revolution was part of the bourgeoisification of the masses.”
bourgeois
  1. (printing, dated) A size of type between brevier and long primer, standardized as 9-point.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Far from being typical of the Swiss bourgeois his enemies have described, his ideas were highly innovative and far ahead of his time.”
      “My dreams differed from those of the common bourgeois.”
      “The typical bourgeois of the middle years of the century was too busy making money to be bothered with politics.”
bourgeoise
  1. A female member of the bourgeoisie; a wealthy woman
  2. Examples:
    1. “And thus, not because of but despite neurology, a girl becomes the Viennese bourgeoise ideal of a woman.”
      “Our newspapers were not so crooked, our politicians so crazed, our bourgeoise quite so exquisitely ripe for insult or assault.”
      “Mother appears to be an empty-headed bourgeoise, only interested in her appearance, her clothes, and seeing her daughters married.”
bourgeoisness
  1. The state or condition of being bourgeois.
bourgie
  1. (derogatory) A member of the bourgeoisie.
bourgeoisifications
bourgeoisies
  1. plural of bourgeoisie
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  3. Examples:
    1. “They did this by campaigning for Popular Alliances and Popular Fronts with the native bourgeoisies.”
      “Brazil's efforts are undermined by the extreme weakness of the other Latin American bourgeoisies.”
      “The British, Irish and American bourgeoisies framed the Agreement in order to meet the demands of global finance capital.”
bourgeoises
  1. plural of bourgeoise
  2. Examples:
    1. “All heads in the group of the bourgeoises were turned toward her.”
bourgies
  1. plural of bourgie
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