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Synonyms for bourgeoisie
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : boo r-zhwah-zee; French boor-zhwa-zee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌbʊər ʒwɑˈzi; French bur ʒwaˈzi |
Top 10 synonyms for bourgeoisie Other synonyms for the word bourgeoisie
- ancestry
- birth
- blue-collar workers
- bourgeois
- bourgeoisie
- breed
- burgherdom
- caliber
- caste
- citizen
- civilian
- clan
- clique
- common
- common people
- commonality
- commoner
- commoners
- condition
- connection
- coterie
- crowd
- cultural level
- derivation
- descent
- educated class
- estate
- Everyman
- Everywoman
- extraction
- genealogy
- hierarchy
- hoi polloi
- influence
- intelligentsia
- lineage
- mass
- Middle America
- middle classes
- middle order
- middle-income group
- mob
- moiety
- nobility
- ordinary people
- origin
- peasant
- pecking order
- pedigree
- pigeonhole
- plain folks
- pleb
- plebeian
- plebians
- populace
- prestige
- proletarian
- proletariat
- public
- quality
- rank and file
- ruck
- sect
- silent majority
- social rank
- source
- sphere
- standing
- state
- station
- status
- stock
- strain
- stratum
- subtopia
- suburbia
- the burbs
- the right stuff
- third estate
- tier
- title
- vulgus
- working class
- working stiff
Définition of bourgeoisie
Origin :- 1707, "body of freemen in a French town; the French middle class," from French bourgeois, from Old French burgeis, borjois (12c.) "town dweller" (as distinct from "peasant"), from borc "town, village," from Frankish *burg "city" (see borough). Communist use for "the capitalist class generally" attested from 1886.
- As in proletariat : noun working class
- As in commoner : noun plebeian
- As in Middle America : noun general populice
- As in middle class : noun common people
- As in third estate : noun common man
- As in class : noun societal group, background
- As in pleb : noun commonalty
- As in ruck : noun commonalty
- As in third estate : noun commonalty
- Despairing of the noblesse he went among the bourgeoisie with that hope.
- Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Everything is settled between the clergy, the nobility, and the bourgeoisie.
- Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
- He alone will force the bourgeoisie to their knees and establish the rule of the people.
- Extract from : « The Solar Magnet » by Sterner St. Paul Meek
- He used to say that the bourgeoisie, the smug, overfed lot, had killed them.
- Extract from : « A Set of Six » by Joseph Conrad
- We answered the distress call of the Cadets and the bourgeoisie!
- Extract from : « The Crimson Tide » by Robert W. Chambers
- For the bourgeoisie in Bavaria dislike Prussia as much as the communists dislike her.
- Extract from : « Erik Dorn » by Ben Hecht
- Like the bourgeoisie, he was dressed in black, that is to say, in mourning.
- Extract from : « Napoleon the Little » by Victor Hugo
- It was not long before the stiff veneer of bourgeoisie which bored me had worn off.
- Extract from : « New Italian sketches » by John Addington Symonds
- In England it is the bourgeoisie who rule the country and stand in the light of Labour.
- Extract from : « The Devil's Paw » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
- The Turbots were never so closely connected with the bourgeoisie.
- Extract from : « When Winter Comes to Main Street » by Grant Martin Overton
Antonyms for bourgeoisie
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