as in poor
belonging to the class of people of middle social or economic rank
The neighborhood was occupied primarily by bourgeois families.
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My grandmother was a bourgeois German Jew, and my grandfather was the son of a stonemason in Sardinia.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
And a lot of conservatism in general is about upholding bourgeois lifestyles, morality, identity, politics, and so forth.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2025
The app, created in 2013, emerged with a rather bourgeois focus.
—Jianqing Chen, The Conversation, 19 Jan. 2025
Look at picture No. 107 in the exhibition of 1874: another of Morisot’s lugubrious bourgeois bachelorettes.
—The Learning Network, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
And a lot of conservatism in general is about upholding bourgeois lifestyles, morality, identity, politics, and so forth.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2025
The app, created in 2013, emerged with a rather bourgeois focus.
—Jianqing Chen, The Conversation, 19 Jan. 2025
Look at picture No. 107 in the exhibition of 1874: another of Morisot’s lugubrious bourgeois bachelorettes.
—The Learning Network, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for bourgeois
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“Bourgeois.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bourgeois. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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