bourgeois

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A person belonging to the middle class.
2. n. A person whose attitudes and behavior are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class.
3. n. In Marxist theory, a member of the property-owning class; a capitalist.
4. adj. Of, relating to, or typical of the middle class.
5. adj. Held to be preoccupied with respectability and material values.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In France, a citizen; a burgher; a man of middle rank.
2. n. A small French coin of the fourteenth century. The bourgeois simple was worth about a cent and a half, the bourgeois fort twice as much.
3. Belonging to or consisting of trades-people or citizens of middle rank: as, bourgeois surroundings; the bourgeois class of France.
4. Wanting in dignity or refinement; common; mean.
5. n. A size of printing-type measuring about 100 lines to the foot, next larger than brevier and smaller than long-primer.
6. n. This line is printed in bourgeois.
7. n. See bourgeois.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Of or related to the middle class, especially its attitudes and conventions.
2. adj. Belonging to the middle class.
3. adj. Conventional, conservative and materialistic.
4. adj. Of, or related to capitalist exploitation of the working class.
5. n. The middle class.
6. n. An individual member of the middle class.
7. n. A person with bourgeois values and attitudes.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A size of type between long primer and brevier. See type.
2. n. A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class.
3. n. See 1st bourgeois.
4. n. A burgess; a citizen. See 2d bourgeois.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
2. adj. belonging to the middle class
3. adj. (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
4. n. a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
5. n. a member of the middle class