bourgeois

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The better class of the bourgeois were all asleep, either ignorant or disapproving of the action of the mob.

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  1. noun A person belonging to the middle class.
  2. noun A person whose attitudes and behavior are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class.
  3. noun In Marxist theory, a member of the property-owning class; a capitalist.
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  • One would have said that SOCIETY was going to pieces Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of virtue. —  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
  • But I include in the word bourgeois, the bourgeois in blouses as well the bourgeois in coats It is we and we alone, that is to say the literary men, who are the people, or to say it better: the tradition of humanity Yes, I am susceptible to disinterested angers and I love you all the more for loving me for that. —  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
  • Like the communists who renounced all that was bourgeois, the blacks reject all that is "Eurocentric." —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • It is therefore more properly called a bourgeois revolution, the culmination of the economic and social transition from feudalism to capitalism, not simply a democratic transformation of the political superstructure. —  Asian
  • The growing competition among the bourgeois, and the resulting commercial crises, make the wages of the workers ever more fluctuating. —  Sadly, No!
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  1. French, from Old French burgeis, citizen of a town, from bourg, bourg; see bourg.

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  1. French, modern form of Old French burgeis, a citizen, later English burgess, q. v.
 

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