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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : boo r-zhwah, boo r-zhwah; French boor-zhwa |
| Phonetic Transcription : bʊərˈʒwɑ, ˈbʊər ʒwɑ; French burˈʒwa |
Definition of bourgeois
Origin :- 1560s, "of the French middle class," from French bourgeois, from Old French burgeis, borjois "town dweller" (see bourgeoisie). Sense of "socially or aesthetically conventional" is from 1764; in communist and socialist writing, as a noun, "a capitalist" (1883).
- It is better to be a good ordinary bourgeois than a bad ordinary bohemian. [Aldous Huxley, 1930]
- adj commonplace
- Whereupon the two aristocrats despised the bourgeois Regnier.
- Extract from : « Camps, Quarters and Casual Places » by Archibald Forbes
- Our second visit brought us into contact with the bourgeois element.
- Extract from : « In the Heart of Vosges » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- My godfather made a great fuss of her, for success was everything to this bourgeois.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- The crowd, we soon discovered, was bourgeois in the extreme.
- Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
- Go all your life dressed like a bourgeois and they'll never call you "My dear gentleman."
- Extract from : « The Middle Class Gentleman » by Moliere
- Certainly, none of the other bourgeois who were there could say as much.
- Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
- I have corn and olive trees, I have almond trees and vines and land, like any bourgeois.
- Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola
- Her wedding would either be ramshackly or bourgeois—she hoped the latter.
- Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster
- He looked at us with the patience of one inured to bourgeois comment.
- Extract from : « Pipefuls » by Christopher Morley
- The bourgeois conscience of the West has no inkling of what it means.
- Extract from : « The New Society » by Walther Rathenau
Synonyms for bourgeois
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