Dictionary definition · bourgeois
noun
- a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
- a member of the middle class
adjective
- (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
- conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class"a bourgeois mentality"
- belonging to the middle class
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Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).