Usage of "bourgeoisie"

rus

буржуазия

portuguès

burguesia

català

burgesia

espanyol

burguesia

Polysemous French term which denotes the wealthy stratum of the middle class that originated during the latter part of the Middle Ages.

Termes relacionats

social class

portuguès

català

espanyol

The social class between the lower and upper classes.

middle class

burgesia

Ús de bourgeoisie en anglès

The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. 
 The Communist Manifesto 

He regarded the bourgeoisie and the deputies with the same hateful disdain. 
 The Psychology of Revolution 

The rogue and the fool cannot combine unless the bourgeoisie is obliterated. 
 The Drums of Jeopardy 

The wits of the salons crackled, the bourgeoisie chortled, the proletariat roared. 
 The Glands Regulating Personality / A Study of the Glands of Int... 

The people had been disbanded, and the royalists had secured the bourgeoisie. 
 History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 

He imagined the tale the bourgeoisie of Issoudun would tell of him. 
 The Two Brothers 

And we ate and joked and enjoyed ourselves just like the bourgeoisie. 
 Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative 

He is the last one who should venture to scorn the bourgeoisie. 
 The Golden Dog 

We have no right to wait until the bourgeoisie chokes the Revolution. 
 Ten Days That Shook the World 

For, as Eustace said, the bourgeoisie had its own chivalry of ideas. 
 Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of B... 

Clearly, the bourgeoisie are not the sole suppressors of the working-class voice. 
 The Guardian 

The teachers side with the bourgeoisie against the Workers' and Peasants' Government. 
 Ten Days That Shook the World 

We, however, indicated to the bourgeoisie a different line of future events. 
 From October to Brest-Litovsk 

Among workingmen, as among the bourgeoisie, there are all sorts of people. 
 Youth and Egolatry 

There are two classes, don't you see, the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. 
 Ten Days That Shook the World 

The German bourgeoisie at St. Paul's Church, Frankfort, enacted universal equal suffrage. 
 The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V... 