Dictionary.com

10 results for: Bourgeois

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
bour·geois1    Audio Help   [boor-zhwah, boor-zhwah; Fr. boor-zhwa] Pronunciation Key noun, plural -geois, adjective
–noun
1.a member of the middle class.
2.a person whose political, economic, and social opinions are believed to be determined mainly by concern for property values and conventional respectability.
3.a shopkeeper or merchant.
–adjective
4.belonging to, characteristic of, or consisting of the middle class.
5.conventional; middle-class.
6.dominated or characterized by materialistic pursuits or concerns.
[Origin: 1555–65; < MF; OF borgeis burgess]
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Bourgeois

To learn more about Bourgeois visit Britannica.com

© 2008 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
bour·geois2    Audio Help   [ber-jois] Pronunciation Key
–noun Printing.
a size of type approximately 9-point, between brevier and long primer.
[Origin: 1815–25; perh. from a printer so named]
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
Bour·geois    Audio Help   [boor-zhwah, boor-zhwah; Fr. boor-zhwa] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.Lé·on Vic·tor Au·guste    Audio Help   [ley-awn veek-tawr oh-gyst] Pronunciation Key, 1851–1925, French statesman: Nobel peace prize 1920.
2.Louise, born 1911, U.S. sculptor, born in France.
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
bour·geois    Audio Help   (bŏŏr-zhwä', bŏŏr'zhwä')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   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.

adj.  
  1. Of, relating to, or typical of the middle class.
  2. Held to be preoccupied with respectability and material values.


[French, from Old French burgeis, citizen of a town, from bourg, bourg; see bourg.]

(Download Now or Buy the Book)
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Bour·geois    Audio Help   (bŏŏr-zhwä')  Pronunciation Key 
French statesman who was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague (1903-1925) and helped draft the Covenant of the League of Nations (1919). He won the 1920 Nobel Peace Prize.

(Download Now or Buy the Book)
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Bourgeois, Louise Born 1911.  
French-born American sculptor whose often erotic sculptures are characterized by elongated figures and abstract shapes.

(Download Now or Buy the Book)
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
bourgeois 
1564, "of the Fr. middle class," from Fr., from O.Fr. burgeis "town dweller" (as distinct from "peasant"), from borc "town, village," from Frank. *burg (see borough). Sense of "socially or aesthetically conventional" is from 1764; in communist and socialist writing, "a capitalist" (1883). Bourgeoisie (n.) "middle class" is first recorded 1707.
"It is better to be a good ordinary bourgeois than a bad ordinary bohemian." [Aldous Huxley, 1930]

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
bourgeois

adjective
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" 
3. belonging to the middle class 

noun
1. a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise [syn: businessperson] 
2. a member of the middle class 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

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.

Note: This line is printed in bourgeois type.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

View results from: Dictionary | Thesaurus | Encyclopedia | All Reference | the Web

Share This:   Share This: del.icio.usShare This: digg.comShare This: FacebookShare This: furl.netShare This: www.netscape.comShare This: myweb2.search.yahoo.comShare This: www.stumbleupon.comShare This: www.google.comShare This: www.technorati.comShare This: blinklist.comShare This: newsvine.comShare This: ma.gnolia.comShare This: reddit.comShare This: favorites.live.comShare This: tailrank.com

Perform a new search, or try your search for "Bourgeois" at: