bourgeois Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
    businessperson.
  2. noun a member of the middle class
    burgher.
  3. adjective satellite (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
  4. adjective satellite conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
    materialistic; conservative.
    • a bourgeois mentality
  5. adjective satellite belonging to the middle class

WordNet

Bour*geois" noun
Etymology
From a French type founder named Bourgeois, or fr. F. bourgeois of the middle class; hence applied to an intermediate size of type between brevier and long primer: cf. G. bourgeois, borgis. Cf. Burgess.
Definitions
  1. (Print.) A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type. ✍ This line is printed in bourgeois type.
Bour*geois" noun
Etymology
F., fr. bourg town; of German origin. See Burgess.
Definitions
  1. A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class. France. a. Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.

Webster 1913