ʒwɑ; 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.
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Lé·on Vic·tor Au·guste 
[ley-awn veek-tawr oh-gyst] , 1851–1925, French statesman: Nobel peace prize 1920.
[ley-awn veek-tawr oh-gyst] , 1851–1925, French statesman: Nobel peace prize 1920. 2.
Louise, 1911–2010, U.S. sculptor, born in France.
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bourgeois1 (ˈbʊəʒwɑː, bʊəˈʒwɑː) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n , pl -geois | |
| 1. | a member of the middle class, esp one regarded as being conservative and materialistic or (in Marxist thought) a capitalist exploiting the working class |
| 2. | a mediocre, unimaginative, or materialistic person |
| —adj | |
| 3. | characteristic of, relating to, or comprising the middle class |
| 4. | conservative or materialistic in outlook: a bourgeois mentality |
| 5. | (in Marxist thought) dominated by capitalists or capitalist interests |
| [C16: from Old French borjois, burgeis burgher, citizen, from bourg town; see | |
| bourgeoise1 | |
| —fem n | |
| bourgeois2 (bəˈdʒɔɪs) | |
| —n | |
| (formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 9 point | |
| [C19: perhaps from its size, midway between long primer and brevier] | |
| Bourgeois (French burʒwa) | |
| —n | |
| Léon Victor Auguste. (leɔ̃ viktɔr oɡyst). 1851--1925, French statesman; first chairman of the League of Nations: Nobel peace prize 1920 | |
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bourgeois
1560s, "of the French middle class," from Fr. bourgeois, from O.Fr. burgeis, borjois "town dweller" (see bourgeoisie). Sense of "socially or aesthetically conventional" is from 1764; in communist and socialist writing, as a noun, "a capitalist" (1883).
"It is better to be a good ordinary bourgeois than a bad ordinary bohemian." [Aldous Huxley, 1930]
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