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bourgeois 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Adjective
/bo͝orˈZHwä/,/ˈbo͝orZHwä/,
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Of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes,
  1. Of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes
    • - a rich, bored, bourgeois family
    • - these views will shock the bourgeois critics
  2. (in Marxist contexts) Upholding the interests of capitalism; not communist
    • - bourgeois society took for granted the sanctity of property
Noun
  1. A bourgeois person
    • - a self-confessed and proud bourgeois
  1. (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
  2. businessperson: a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
  3. conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"
  4. In sociology and political science, bourgeoisie (adjective: bourgeois) describes a range of groups across history. In the Western world, between the late 18th century to now, the bourgeoisie is a social class characterized by their ownership of capital and their related culture. ...
  5. (bourgeoisness) The state or condition of being bourgeois
  6. The marxist term for the middle classes whose interest it is to preserve the status quo. The term has therefore come to stand for conventionality per se.
  7. A person who is a member of the bourgeoisie, or middle social class, and who is characterized by owning property and having an interest in obtaining material possessions.
  8. [French] an address of formality or politeness in France from the 16th C., usually for a non-noble person. However, a person addressed as NN, bourgeois de [place] might be a noble man who was involved in town affairs and wanted to keep the title bourgeois de [place] to maintain certain tax breaks.
  9. This is an adjective, and refers to the life style of people who are the "burghers" (same origin –– important people of the town or burg) or shop keepers and factory owners. ...
  10. originally, a freeman of a medieval town ("bourg"). A self-employed person, as a shopkeeper or businessman. A person whose beliefs, attitudes, and practices are simple and practical. For some reason or another most revolutionaries want to hang them from lampposts. ...
  11. Term for the ruling class. Originated in French revolutionary terminology.
  12. (boor-ZWAH) French: middle-class; common
  13. (in  Loys Bourgeois (French composer))
  14. In the context of the Revolution, the term is used of those relatively wealthy and politically active members of the middle classes, the professionals and gentlemen of independent means.