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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BOURGEOIS', n. burjois'. A small kind of printing types, in size between long primer and brevier. The type on which the main body of this work is printed.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
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" [syn: bourgeois, conservative, materialistic]
3: belonging to the middle class n
1: a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise [syn: businessperson, bourgeois]
2: a member of the middle class [syn: bourgeois, burgher]

Merriam Webster's

I. biographical name Léon-Victor-Auguste 1851-1925 French statesman II. biographical name Louise 1911- American (French-born) sculptor

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: Middle French, from Old French burgeis townsman, from burc, borg town, from Latin burgus Date: circa 1565 1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the townsman or of the social middle class 2. marked by a concern for material interests and respectability and a tendency toward mediocrity 3. dominated by commercial and industrial interests ; capitalistic • bourgeoisification noun • bourgeoisify verb II. noun (plural bourgeois) Date: circa 1674 1. a. burgher b. a middle-class person 2. a person with social behavior and political views held to be influenced by private-property interest ; capitalist 3. plural bourgeoisie

Britannica Concise

French-U.S. sculptor. Born in Paris, she studied briefly with F. Lé ger and initially worked as a painter and engraver. In the late 1940s, after moving to New York with her Amer. husband, she turned to sculpture. She achieved recognition in the 1950s with wooden constructions painted uniformly black or white. She has also worked in marble, plaster, latex, and glass. Though her works @T:are abstract, they are suggestive of the human figure and express themes of betrayal, anxiety, and loneliness. French politician. He entered the civil service in 1876 and was elected to the National Assembly in 1888. He served in several ministerial posts and was briefly premier (1895-96). He was a member of the Senate 1905-23, and its president from 1920. An advocate of international cooperation, he was appointed to the International Court of Justice in 1903. In 1919 he was France's representative to the League of Nations, emerging as its champion. In 1920 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. often derog. --adj. 1 a conventionally middle-class. b humdrum, unimaginative. c selfishly materialistic. 2 upholding the interests of the capitalist class; non-communist. --n. a bourgeois person. Etymology: F: see BURGESS

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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 1913 Dictionary

Bourgeois Bour*geois", n. [F., fr. bourg town; of German origin. See Burgess.] A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class. [France.] a. Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle-class people. He's accusing them of having a bourgeois and limited vision. ADJ [disapproval] see also petit bourgeois

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