bourgeois : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bourgeois	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bourgeois adj (according to Marxist thought) being of the property- owning class and exploitive of the working class conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality" Synonym(s): bourgeois, conservative, materialistic belonging to the middle class n a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise Synonym(s): businessperson, bourgeois a member of the middle class Synonym(s): bourgeois, burgher
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bourgeois \Bourgeois"\, n. [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}.] (Print.) A size of type between long primer and brevier. See {Type}. Note: This line is printed in bourgeois type.