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bourgeois

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bourgeois in WordNet English dictionary

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