bourgeois
adjective/ˈbʊəʒwɑː/, /ˌbʊəˈʒwɑː/
/ˌbʊrˈʒwɑː/, /ˈbʊrʒwɑː/
- belonging to the middle class
- a traditional bourgeois family
- The family has long been the basic unit of bourgeois society.
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- (disapproving) interested mainly in possessions and social status and supporting traditional values
- bourgeois attitudes/tastes
- They've become very bourgeois since they got married.
- That's a terribly bourgeois view!
- (politics) supporting the interests of capitalism
- bourgeois ideology
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from French, from late Latin burgus ‘castle’ (in medieval Latin ‘fortified town’), ultimately of Germanic origin and related to borough.
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