bourgeois

comparative more bourgeois · superlative most bourgeois · alternative burgeois

1. Of or relating to the middle class (often derogatory), and their presumed overly conventional, conservative, and materialistic values.

   bourgeois opinion

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   It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.

   2010 February 5, Mike Marqusee, “Flamenco's humane roots”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2023

   The increasing social interactions between the two nations through religion, court and commerce would expose differences in speech too and would soon deepen bourgeois Scots’ deteriorating perception of their own tongue.

   2023, Clive Young, “chapter three: From Union to Devolution”, in Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Luath Press Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 74

   Synonyms: square

2. historicalOf or relating to the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.
3. MarxismOf or relating to the capitalist class, (usually derogatory) the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.

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   Bogdanov did not explain what proletarian astronomy or integral calculus would be like, but he declared that if workers had difficulty in mastering the various sciences without long, specialized study it was chiefly because bourgeois scientists had erected artificial barriers of method and vocabulary so that the workers should not learn their secrets.

   1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 444

alternative burgeois

1. collectiveplural normallyuncountableusuallygovernmentThe middle class.
2. rareuncountableusuallyAn individual member of the middle class.
3. derogatoryuncountableusuallyA person of any class with bourgeois (i.e., overly conventional and materialistic) values and attitudes.
4. uncountableusuallyhistoryAn individual member of the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.
5. MarxismuncountableusuallyA capitalist, (usually derogatory) an exploiter of the proletariat.

   Нет ничего характернее для буржуа, как перенесение черт современных порядков на все времена и народы.

   Vladimir Lenin

   1967 [1894], Владимир Ленин [Vladimir Lenin], “Выпуск I”, in Что такое «друзья народа» и как они воюют против социал-демократов? (В. И. Ленин – Полное собрание сочинений; 1), page 153; English translation from “Part I”, in What the “Friends of the People” Are and How They Fight the Social-Democrats (V. I. Lenin – Collected Works; 1), translation of original in Russian, 1977, page 154

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   Der Bourgeois sieht in seiner Frau ein bloßes Produktionsinstrument. Er hört, daß die Produktionsinstrumente gemeinschaftlich ausgebeutet werden sollen, und kann sich natürlich nichts anderes denken, als daß das Los der Gemeinschaftlichkeit die Weiber gleichfalls treffen wird.

   1977 [1848], Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei (Marx-Engels-Werke; 4), page 478; English translation from Samuel Moore, transl., Manifesto of the Communist Party (Marx/Engels Collected Works; 6), translation of original in German, 1976 [1888], page 502

present singular third person bourgeoises · participle present bourgeoising · participle past bourgeoised · past bourgeoised · alternative burgeois

1. transitiveTo make bourgeois.

alternative burgeois

1. dateduncountablemediaA size of type between brevier and long primer, standardized as 9-point.

   Synonyms: galliard

plural Bourgeoises

1. A surname from French.