Usually means: Middle class, materialistic, conventional values.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bourgeois, bourgeois: Merriam-Webster
  2. bourgeois: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bourgeois: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bourgeois: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bourgeois: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bourgeois, bourgeois: Wordnik
  7. bourgeois: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bourgeois: Wiktionary
  9. bourgeois: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bourgeois: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bourgeois: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bourgeois, bourgeois: Dictionary.com
  13. bourgeois: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bourgeois: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bourgeois (disambiguation), Bourgeois (surname), Bourgeois, The Bourgeois: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bourgeois: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. Bourgeois: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. bourgeois: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. bourgeois: FreeDictionary.org
  20. bourgeois: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Bourgeois: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. bourgeois: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  23. bourgeois: Rhymezone
  24. bourgeois: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bourgeois: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bourgeois: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bourgeois: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bourgeois: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See bourgeoisification as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Of or relating to the middle class (often derogatory), their presumed overly conventional, conservative, and materialistic values.
adjective:  (historical) Of or relating to the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.
adjective:  (Marxism) Of or relating to the capitalist class, (usually derogatory) the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.
noun:  (politics, collectively, usually in the plural) The middle class.
noun:  (rare) An individual member of the middle class.
noun:  (usually derogatory) A person of any class with bourgeois (i.e., overly conventional and materialistic) values and attitudes.
noun:  (history) An individual member of the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.
noun:  (Marxism) A capitalist, (usually derogatory) an exploiter of the proletariat.
verb:  (transitive) To make bourgeois.
noun:  (printing, dated) A size of type between brevier and long primer, standardized as 9-point.
noun:  A surname from French.

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