Overview of noun bourgeois

The noun bourgeois has 2 senses

• businessperson, bourgeois -- (a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise)


• bourgeois, burgher -- (a member of the middle class)

Overview of adj bourgeois

The adj bourgeois has 3 senses

• bourgeois -- ((according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class)


• bourgeois, conservative, materialistic -- (conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality")


• bourgeois -- (belonging to the middle class)