Bourgeois

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bourgeois \Bour*geois"\, n. [From a French type founder named
     Bourgeois, or fr. F. bourgeois of the middle class; hence
     applied to an intermediate size of type between brevier and
     long primer: cf. G. bourgeois, borgis. Cf. {Burgess}.]
     (Print.)
     A size of type between long primer and brevier. See {Type}.


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     Note: This line is printed in bourgeois type.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bourgeois \Bour*geois"\, n. [F., fr. bourg town; of German
     origin. See {Burgess}.]
     A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping
     class. [France.]
     [1913 Webster] a. Characteristic of the middle class, as in
     France.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  capitalistic \capitalistic\ adj.
     1. Of or relating to capitalism or capitalists. capitalistic
        methods and incentives
  
     Syn: capitalist.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. Favoring or practicing capitalism. [Narrower terms:
        {bourgeois}] {socialistic}
  
     Syn: capitalist.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bourgeois
       adj 1: (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning
              class and exploitive of the working class
       2: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle
          class; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: {conservative}, {materialistic}]
       3: belonging to the middle class
       n 1: a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
            [syn: {businessperson}]
       2: a member of the middle class [syn: {burgher}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  144 Moby Thesaurus words for "bourgeois":
     Babbitt, Babbittish, Cockney, Everyman, John Smith,
     Middle American, Philistine, accordant, anal, anal character,
     arriviste, average, average man, big-city man, boor, bounder,
     burgess, burgher, cad, campy, capitalist, churl, city dweller,
     city man, city slicker, clown, common, common man, commoner,
     commonplace, compulsive, compulsive character, concordant,
     conformer, conformist, conventional, conventionalist,
     corresponding, epicier, exurbanite, formalist, formalistic,
     free-enterprise, garden, garden-variety, general, greedy,
     groundling, guttersnipe, harmonious, high-camp, homely, homespun,
     hooligan, ill-bred fellow, in accord, in keeping, in line, in step,
     individualistic, kitschy, kosher, little fellow, little man, looby,
     lout, low fellow, low-camp, materialistic, methodologist,
     middle-class, middle-class type, model child, money-hungry, mucker,
     no great shakes, nonsocialistic, normal, nouveau riche, oppidan,
     ordinary, organization man, orthodox, parrot, parvenu, peasant,
     pedant, pedantic, perfectionist, philistine, plastic,
     plastic person, pleb, plebeian, pop, popular, precisian,
     precisianist, precisianistic, private-enterprise, proletarian,
     propertied, public, regular, ribald, roturier, rough, roughneck,
     rowdy, ruffian, run-of-mine, run-of-the-mill, sheep, square,
     straight, stuffy, suburban, suburbanite, teenybopper, townee,
     towner, townfolk, townfolks, townsman, townspeople, townswoman,
     traditionalist, trimmer, unexceptional, unnoteworthy, unremarkable,
     unspectacular, upstart, uptight, urbanite, usual, vernacular,
     villager, villageress, vulgarian, vulgarist, working-class,
     yes-man, yokel