bourgeois[adjective]Synonyms: middle-class, conventional, hidebound, materialistic, traditional
[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
bour‧geois /ˈbʊəʒwɑː $ bʊrˈʒwɑː/
adjective[
Date: 1500-1600;
Language: French;
Origin: 'person who lives in a town', from Old French borjois, from borc 'town', from Latin burgus 'castle, town defended by a wall']
1. belonging to the
middle class:
She came from a bourgeois family.
bourgeois morality2. too interested in having a lot of possessions and a high position in society:
the backlash against bourgeois materialism3. belonging to or typical of the part of society that is rich, educated, owns land etc, according to Marxism
⇒
proletarian—bourgeois noun [countable] ⇒
petty bourgeois [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲