bourgeois
boorzh wo
- n a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
- n a member of the middle class
- s (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
- s conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
a bourgeois mentality - s belonging to the middle class
- The bourgeois mindset in the bankers prevented them to look at micro financing as a money earning channel.
- For politicians in West Germany, as in the rest of Western Europe, it pays to be bourgeois these days.
- Paris Poet Blaise Cendrars used to baffle the bourgeois, and build up his painter friends, by writing such wild lines as these (about Marc Chagall):He grabs.