bourgeois

noun

a member of the middle class

a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise

adjective

belonging to the middle class

conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

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

Roots

burgusbourg- · Latin · fortified town

Synonyms for bourgeois

materialisticadj burghern proletarianadj capitalistadj conformistadj plebeianadj propertiedadj

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