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Synonyms for bourgeois
bʊərˈʒwɑ, ˈbʊər ʒwɑbour·geois
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Wiktionary
bourgeoisnoun
Anyone deemed to be an exploiter of the proletariat, a capitalist.
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square
Princeton's WordNet
businessperson, bourgeoisnoun
a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
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burgher, businesspersonAntonyms:
upper-class, lower-class, socialist, low-class, socialisticbourgeois, burgheradjective
a member of the middle class
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burgess, burgher, businesspersonAntonyms:
low-class, lower-class, upper-class, socialist, socialisticbourgeoisadjective
(according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
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materialistic, conservativeAntonyms:
low-class, upper-class, socialist, lower-class, socialisticbourgeois, conservative, materialisticadjective
conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
"a bourgeois mentality"
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mercenary, conservative, buttoned-down, worldly-minded, materialistic, cautious, button-downAntonyms:
low-class, lower-class, upper-class, socialist, socialisticbourgeoisadjective
belonging to the middle class
Synonyms:
materialistic, conservativeAntonyms:
upper-class, socialist, socialistic, low-class, lower-class
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#1834 | square | |
#4600 | conservative | |
#16954 | burgess | |
#18081 | cautious | |
#24792 | bourgeois | |
#30905 | mercenary | |
#42068 | bourgeoisie | |
#50696 | materialistic | |
#70616 | businessperson | |
#158919 | burgher |
How to use bourgeois in a sentence?
It's not the bourgeois cocktail hat, the ladylike hat, this is another kind of hat, I wouldn't say aggressive, but more protective.
If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
I do not think that Donald Trump is a fascist, a racist, or any kind of epithets that are being thrown at him, i think he’s a bourgeois politician that many working people voted for based on hope and change—the same people who voted for Barack Obama elected Donald Trump.
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
Translations for bourgeois
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- burgèsCatalan, Valencian
- bourgeois, spießigGerman
- burĝaro, burĝoEsperanto
- burguésSpanish
- burgesBasque
- بورژوازیPersian
- porvari, poroporvarillinen, keskiluokka, keskiluokkainen, poroporvari, porvarillinenFinnish
- bourgeoisFrench
- orang borjuis, borjuis, kelas menengahIndonesian
- borgheseItalian
- בורגניHebrew
- burguesa, burguêsPortuguese
- буржуа́, обыва́тель, буржуази́я, обыва́тельский, капиталисти́ческий, буржуа́зный, капитали́стRussian
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