"bourgeois" in the noun sense
1. businessperson, bourgeois
a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
2. bourgeois, burgher
a member of the middle class
"bourgeois" in the adjective sense
1. bourgeois
according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
2. bourgeois, conservative, materialistic
conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
"a bourgeois mentality"
3. bourgeois
belonging to the middle class
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