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Synonyms for bourgeois
bʊərˈʒwɑ, ˈbʊər ʒwɑbour·geois
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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
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materialistic, conservativeAntonyms:
upper-class, socialist, socialistic, low-class, lower-class
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List of paraphrases for "bourgeois":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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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?
In the bourgeois neighborhoods, that's where it's a problem. They go crazy over these (EU) issues. That's what's stopping them from voting for us, but in the working class areas they don't really care.
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.
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.
We had room for all social classes : elegant bourgeois ladies, young apprentices, old men, masons and even tramps queued outside, they wanted a curative pedicure, our specialty.
You can become rich easily but it’s quite hard to become bourgeois
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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