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bour·geois  audio  (br-zhwä, brzhwä) KEY 

NOUN:
pl. bourgeois
  1. A person belonging to the middle class.
  2. A person whose attitudes and behavior are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class.
  3. In Marxist theory, a member of the property-owning class; a capitalist.
ADJECTIVE:
  1. Of, relating to, or typical of the middle class.
  2. Held to be preoccupied with respectability and material values.
ETYMOLOGY:
French, from Old French burgeis, citizen of a town, from bourg, bourg ; see bourg


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