Definition of Bourgeois
Bourgeois
bour·geois


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(adjective)
Relating to or characteristic of the social middle class, especially in being concerned with material possessions and respectability.

e.g. The bourgeois values of the wealthy elite were often at odds with the artistic community.

(noun)
a person of the bourgeois or middle class;

e.g. He was a stuck up bourgeois who would never understand the struggles of a poor person.



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