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adjective
1. of, related to, or characteristic of the middle class. Bourgeois women began to emulate the manners of the upper class. Bourgeois attitudes toward extra-marital affairs tended to be more conservative.
2. marked by a concern for respectability, comfort, and material possessions. Hippies rebelled against bourgeois values.
3. lacking artistic or social refinement; philistine. An opera lover, he considered musical theater simply bourgeois.
noun
1. one who belongs to the middle class. The numbers of bourgeois increased with the expansion of trade.
2. one who possesses or exhibits values, attitudes, and behavior conventionally associated with the middle class, such as materialism.
3. in Marxist theory, a member of the capitalist class, opposed to the proletariat in the class struggle.