| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bour·geois |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b r-zhwä , brzhwä |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. bourgeois
1. A person belonging to the middle class. 2. A person whose attitudes and behavior are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class. 3. In Marxist theory, a member of the property-owning class; a capitalist. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Of, relating to, or typical of the middle class. 2. Held to be preoccupied with respectability and material values. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French, from Old French burgeis, citizen of a town, from bourg, bourg. See bourg.
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