- 1belonging to the middle class a traditional bourgeois family see petit bourgeois
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- 2(disapproving) interested mainly in possessions and social status, and supporting traditional values bourgeois attitudes/tastes They've become very bourgeois since they got married.
- 3(politics) supporting the interests of capitalism bourgeois ideology
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