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# bourgeois

«bourgeois» in Mova's school dictionary: **Belonging to the middle class, people who have…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (bourgeois); noun (a bourgeois, the bourgeoisie)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Belonging to the middle class, people who have comfortable jobs, homes and money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bourgeois/#m1)

2) (informal, often unkind) Too interested in owning things, being respectable and following ordinary middle-class tastes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bourgeois/#m2)

3) In history (especially Karl Marx's ideas), the bourgeoisie are the people who own factories and businesses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bourgeois/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons it appears in the French Revolution and in ideas about social class. In everyday adult talk it can be a mocking word for things seen as posh or fussy, often said jokingly («a bit bourgeois, isn't it?»). It tells the reader about class and lifestyle.

### examples

- The bourgeois family lived in a big house in Paris. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bourgeois/#x1)
- In the story, the bourgeois merchant cared only about money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bourgeois/#x2)
- Dad joked that eating olives was very bourgeois. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bourgeois/#x3)
- The bourgeoisie gained power after the French Revolution. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bourgeois/#x4)
- Karl Marx wrote about workers and the bourgeoisie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bourgeois/#x5)
- She said the fancy coffee shop was too bourgeois for her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bourgeois/#x6)

### note

A French word. Said «BOOR-zhwah» (the s is silent). Spelling trap: b-o-u-r-g-e-o-i-s. The group noun is «the bourgeoisie» (boor-zhwah-ZEE). Can sound like an insult, so use it carefully.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bourgeois» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bourgeois/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.