Meaning & Definition of Bourgeois in English
English⟶
Bourgeois
/bʊrʒwɑ/
noun
1. A capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
synonym:
- businessperson,
- bourgeois
2. A member of the middle class
synonym:
- bourgeois,
- burgher
adjective
1. (according to marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
synonym:
- bourgeois
2. Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
- "A bourgeois mentality"
synonym:
- bourgeois,
- conservative,
- materialistic
3. Belonging to the middle class
synonym:
- bourgeois
Examples of using
Currently, when an idealistic obscurantism has become a major "theoretical" means of the warmongers, Lenin's critique of bourgeois philosophy of the early XX century aquired particular relevance.