Crossword clues for bourgeois
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
capitalistic \capitalistic\ adj.
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Of or relating to capitalism or capitalists. capitalistic methods and incentives
Syn: capitalist.
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Favoring or practicing capitalism. [Narrower terms: bourgeois] socialistic
Syn: capitalist.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "of the French middle class," from French bourgeois, from Old French burgeis, borjois "town dweller" (see bourgeoisie). Sense of "socially or aesthetically conventional" is from 1764; in communist and socialist writing, as a noun, "a capitalist" (1883).It is better to be a good ordinary bourgeois than a bad ordinary bohemian. [Aldous Huxley, 1930]
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. 1 Of or relating to the middle class, (context especially pejorative) their presumed overly conventional, conservative, and materialistic values. 2 (context historical English) Of or relating to the bourgeoisie, the Third Estate of the French Ancien Regime. 3 (context Marxism English) Of or relating to the upper class, (context usually pejorative) the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat. n. 1 (context political collectively usually plural English) The middle class. 2 (context rare English) An individual member of the middle class. 3 (context usually pejorative) A person of any class with bourgeois (i.e., overly conventional and materialistic) values and attitudes. 4 (context: history) An individual member of the bourgeoisie, the Third Estate of the French Ancien Regime. 5 (context Marxism English) A capitalist, (context usually pejorative) an exploiter of the proletariat. Etymology 2
n. (context printing dated English) A size of type between brevier and long primer, standardized as 9-point.
WordNet
adj. (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; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: conservative, materialistic]
belonging to the middle class
n. a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise [syn: businessperson]
a member of the middle class [syn: burgher]
Wikipedia
Bourgeois is the adjectival form of the French bourgeoisie, a loosely defined designated group characterized by private wealth, an upper class social status, and its related culture.
- Petite bourgeoisie
- Bourgeois Alternative, Danish political party
- Bourgeois liberalism
- Bourgeois nationalism
- Bourgeois pseudoscience
Bourgeois may also refer to:
- Bourgeois (surname)
- bourgeois (typography), the name of the type size between brevier and long primer
- H. L. Bourgeois High School, Gray, Louisiana
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Bourgeois is a synonym for these wine grapes:
- Elbling, in the Mosel region
- Gouais blanc, historic white grape
- Bourgeois fish, a common name for Lutjanus sebae, a snapper from the Indo-West Pacific
Bourgeois is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Albéric Bourgeois (1876–1962), Canadian comic strip artist
- Brent Bourgeois, U.S. rock musician and producer
- Constant Bourgeois, French landscape painter and engraver
- Dana Bourgeois, luthier
- Derek Bourgeois (born 1941), English composer
- Diane Bourgeois (born 1949), Canadian politician
- Douglas Bourgeois (born 1951), American sculptor and painter
- Émile Bourgeois (1857–1934), French historian
- Francis Bourgeois (1756–1811), landscape painter and court painter to George III
- Jason Bourgeois (born 1982), American baseball player
- Joël Bourgeois (born 1971), Guyanese-Canadian distance runner
- Léon Bourgeois (1851–1925), French statesman
- Louis Bourgeois (architect) (1856–1930), architect
- Louis Bourgeois (composer) (c.1510–1560), French composer
- Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), artist and sculptor
- Loys Bourgeois (c.1510 to 1515–1559 or later), composer
- Paulette Bourgeois (born 1951), Canadian children's writer
- Roy Bourgeois, human rights activist
- Siméon Bourgeois (1815–1887), 19th century French Navy officer
- Victor Bourgeois, Belgian Modernist architect
Usage examples of "bourgeois".
From time to time, in mention of the pay of men-at-arms, the wages of laborers, the price of a horse or a plow, the living expenses of a bourgeois family, the amounts of hearth taxes and sales taxes, I have tried to relate monetary figures to actual values.
The Menagier of Paris, a wealthy bourgeois contemporary of Enguerrand VII, who at the age of sixty in 1392 wrote a book of domestic and moral instruction for his young wife, had read or possessed the Bible, The Golden Legend, St.
These occasions were the great sporting events of the time, attracting crowds of bourgeois spectators from rich merchants to common artisans, mountebanks, food vendors, prostitutes, and pickpockets.
The loss of so much French nobility caused royal commissioners afterward to scour the provinces for bourgeois and rich peasants prepared to pay for ennoblement.
Against this effort the industrial towns, led by Ghent, rose in revolt under Jacob van Artevelde, one of the most dynamic bourgeois figures of the 14th century.
His taste for luxury extended to everything but ministers, for he inherited from his father and kept in office a shady group, neither capable nor honest, who were despised by the nobles because they were of common birth and hated by the bourgeois for their avarice and venality.
The battalion also included the bourgeois of Paris, Rouen, and Amiens.
Owing to a quarrel over renewed taxation, bourgeois support was disaffected, causing the towns to with draw their contingents.
In their place a Council of Twenty-eight, consisting of twelve nobles, twelve bourgeois, and four clerics, was to be appointed by the Estates, and on that understanding the Estates agreed to grant certain taxes in aid of the war.
Pierre and Martin des Essars, starting from bourgeois origins in Rouen, had become enriched and ennobled in the service of Philip the Fair and Philip VI.
Sundays all business was closed, everyone went to church, and afterward working people gathered in the taverns while the bourgeois promenaded in the faubourgs.
Languedoc sent a delegation of nobles and bourgeois with a gift of 10,000 florins and the assurance that their lives, goods, and fortunes were dedicated to his delivery.
Lesser bourgeois, however, saw the peasant rising as a common war of non-nobles against nobles and clergy.
Breaking into the castle of Ermenonville, one of the many benefits of royal favor bestowed on Robert de Lorris, a combined force of bourgeois and Jacques cornered the owner inside.
Antoine, where he again demanded the keys and met the same response, which was led by a certain Pierre des Essars, a knighted bourgeois and cousin by marriage of both Maillart and Marcel.