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Meanings of bourgeois in English

Portuguese
empresário
Catalan
home d'empresa
Spanish
negociante

A capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise.

empresário
Portuguese
burguesa
Catalan
burgès

A member of the middle class.

burguesa

Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class.

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Bourgeois.

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Usage of bourgeois in English
1
When we were young, in our petit-bourgeois society, there were conversational taboos.
The Guardian
2
The bourgeois talked peaceably to the working-classes of what was in preparation.
Les Misérables
3
The rise and fall in bourgeois life follows a well established law.
The Goose Man
4
The fright which the elections caused to the bourgeois has been diverting.
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
5
The homicide was treated as an inevitable effect of Western bourgeois influence.
Death of a Red Heroine
6
Life for the younger set in Cherryvale was so bourgeois, so ennuye.
Missy
7
It means the bourgeois point of view, the Philistine point of view.
The Emancipated
8
They are bourgeois rationalists, they believe their own projections of my character.
Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?
9
By degrees the bourgeois spirit encroached upon and overpowered the chivalric ideals.
A History of French Literature / Short Histories of the Literatu...
10
Many bourgeois officers were disposed of similarly along the Ukraine-Moscow telegraph line.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
11
At Tours the Balzac household led the life of prosperous bourgeois folk.
Honoré de Balzac
12
In short, my joyous individualism was dominated by the orthodox bourgeois ethics.
War of the Classes
13
The Russian Press, bourgeois and socialistic, reveals the following state of affairs:
In the World War
14
On the other hand, the crowd of bourgeois has not invaded Brighton.
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
15
Mallorca, for example, is a bastion of old conservatism and bourgeois values.
The Guardian
16
Uprisings, while proving popular intrepidity, also educated the courage of the bourgeois.
Les Misérables
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