noun
- A capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise.
- synonyms: businessperson
- A member of the middle class.
- synonyms: burgher
adjective
- According to Marxist thought. ( being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class)
- Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class.
- usage: "a bourgeois mentality"
- synonyms: conservative, materialistic
- Belonging to the middle class. .
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