Definition of bourgeois in English:

bourgeois

adjective ˈbʊəʒwɑː

1Belonging to or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.
中产阶级的；具有中产阶级保守特性的
a rich, bored, bourgeois family
一个富有、乏味的中产阶级家庭。
these views will shock the bourgeois critics
这些观点会使那些中产阶级的评论家感到震惊。
Example sentencesExamples
- People in the privileged classes can sniff at bourgeois values and still turn out O.K. because they eventually grow up.
- It thought it was so much better than its parents, those class-bound dinosaurs whose bourgeois values it thought it was systematically eliminating.
- Hippies seem to come from largely bourgeois families.
- Could it be that in just two years the scourge of bourgeois values is now entering the American mainstream?
- The sensuality of the dance and the lyrics emphasizing lowlife values and language challenged bourgeois morality and dominant views on appropriate female behavior.
- Bad memories resurface as each character's hidden resentment is revealed, from redundancy to marital rejection and disillusionment with bourgeois values.
- Divorces were concentrated among middle-class and bourgeois women living in the towns of northern France.
- Illegitimacy, welfare dependency, and criminality were more prevalent than in the South, with its much stronger bourgeois values.
- Sadly, this means that instead of remaining at the cutting edge of creativity, London designers are sometimes forced to take on bourgeois values.
- They both were scions of bourgeois families, raised and living in a typical middle class milieu.
- His work is critical of bourgeois values, particularly sexual repression, and exposes hypocrisy.
- In fact, throughout the 19th century, the French state was a bourgeois state which echoed middle-class needs and values.
- This was a prosperous time for Bavaria and there developed a flourishing art market, concentrating on conventional, unchallenging bourgeois genre pieces.
- What is remembered is their immorality and their rejection of bourgeois values applied to family, society and the formal concept of beauty.
- The more the peasant exerted himself in response to the government's plea for more production, the more he prospered and developed bourgeois attitudes.
- Rational recreation was best expressed in the suburban ideal of the bourgeois family home that had clearly emerged by 1850.
- He analyzed bourgeois culture which conveniently precluded his being absorbed by it.
- The Middle East became the lover she could not have and a refuge from the bourgeois England of her family.
- There's a famous letter he wrote to his brother, denouncing him for not accepting the bourgeois values.
- The slate had to be cleaned of all bourgeois conventions, traditions and expectations.
Synonyms
middle-class, property-owning, propertied, shopkeeping
conventional, traditional, conservative, conformist
ordinary, commonplace, provincial, parochial, suburban, small-town, parish-pump
1. 1.1 (in Marxist contexts) upholding the interests of capitalism; not communist.
  （马克思主义理论中的）资产阶级的，资本家的；非共产主义的
  bourgeois society took for granted the sanctity of property
  资本主义社会认为保护私有财产的神圣性是理所当然的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  British capitalism is a bourgeois democracy, and both bits of that label are important.
  Pivotal to such a bourgeois conception of socialism, is the bourgeois assessment of capitalism.
  It was only with the development of capitalism, the capitalist market and the bourgeois state that minority languages were actively repressed.
  The social democrats gambled on bourgeois democracy and the stability of capitalism.
  At one point, Communists said that bourgeois democracy was a step forward from feudalism.
  Synonyms
  capitalistic, materialistic, money-oriented, commercial
  informal, derogatory yuppie

noun ˈbʊəʒwɑː

A bourgeois person.
资产阶级分子；中产阶级分子
a self-confessed and proud bourgeois
Example sentencesExamples
- My first weekend off in a month, and I'm with Eton and the English bourgeois.
- Do this at the Opera House and the bourgeois in the front row would be shifting uncomfortably in their seats I'll wager.
- It's in your hands now, you hip intellectual bourgeois!
- Far from being typical of the Swiss bourgeois his enemies have described, his ideas were highly innovative and far ahead of his time.
- The typical bourgeois of the middle years of the century was too busy making money to be bothered with politics.
- In a phrase, he did not want to be a Communist so much as he wanted not to be a bourgeois.
- All the same, many bourgeois wore thick shoes, carried umbrellas, and tried to look as much like their own concierges as they could.
- A State Council served as the consulting body, comprised mainly of Neapolitan nobles and bourgeois.
- While nobles and bourgeois owned most of the land, peasants were left in control of it.
- Nobles and bourgeois depended on extra-economic coercion to appropriate this mass of resources controlled by common subjects.
- My dreams differed from those of the common bourgeois.
- It was a philosophy for the public sphere as well as a statement of the contemporary bourgeois.
- Just as nobles and bourgeois were defined by their lifestyle, so too were workers, with the common economic feature that they all worked with their hands.
- In its completely developed form this family exists only among the bourgeois.
- By 1931 the uneasiness had extended to many conservative bourgeois who viewed the radicalism of the new movement with apprehension.
- It attracted to its ranks many local bourgeois.
- The play fails as tragedy not because Willy is a struggling bourgeois rather than a man of stature, but because he lacks the element of choice. He is a victim, not an anti-hero.
- At the end of 1968, a group of student rebels accused Li of being a ‘newly born bourgeois.’
- Until the mid-seventeenth century, bourgeois and nobles in many regions used the local tongue among themselves, and even wrote literary works in them.
- The rise of relativism, and its inevitable corollary, nihilism, represents the triumph of the bourgeois.
Synonyms
member of the middle class, property owner

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French, from late Latin burgus 'castle' (in medieval Latin 'fortified town'), ultimately of Germanic origin and related to borough. Compare with burgess.

borough from Old English:
The early words burg and burh meant ‘a fortress’. Later they became ‘a fortified town’ and eventually ‘town’, ‘district’. Burgh is a Scots form. Burgher (mid 16th century) meaning ‘inhabitant of a borough’ was reinforced by Dutch burger, from burg ‘castle’. Bourgeois (late 17th century) adopted from French (from late Latin burgus ‘castle’) is related. An animal's defensive place, its burrow (Middle English) is a variant of borough.

Rhymes

Boyce, choice, Joyce, pro-choice, rejoice, Royce, voice

Definition of bourgeois in US English:

bourgeois

adjective

1Of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.
中产阶级的；具有中产阶级保守特性的
a rich, bored, bourgeois family
一个富有、乏味的中产阶级家庭。
these views will shock the bourgeois critics
这些观点会使那些中产阶级的评论家感到震惊。
Example sentencesExamples
- People in the privileged classes can sniff at bourgeois values and still turn out O.K. because they eventually grow up.
- Divorces were concentrated among middle-class and bourgeois women living in the towns of northern France.
- He analyzed bourgeois culture which conveniently precluded his being absorbed by it.
- His work is critical of bourgeois values, particularly sexual repression, and exposes hypocrisy.
- What is remembered is their immorality and their rejection of bourgeois values applied to family, society and the formal concept of beauty.
- Bad memories resurface as each character's hidden resentment is revealed, from redundancy to marital rejection and disillusionment with bourgeois values.
- The more the peasant exerted himself in response to the government's plea for more production, the more he prospered and developed bourgeois attitudes.
- Rational recreation was best expressed in the suburban ideal of the bourgeois family home that had clearly emerged by 1850.
- Illegitimacy, welfare dependency, and criminality were more prevalent than in the South, with its much stronger bourgeois values.
- It thought it was so much better than its parents, those class-bound dinosaurs whose bourgeois values it thought it was systematically eliminating.
- Hippies seem to come from largely bourgeois families.
- They both were scions of bourgeois families, raised and living in a typical middle class milieu.
- Sadly, this means that instead of remaining at the cutting edge of creativity, London designers are sometimes forced to take on bourgeois values.
- There's a famous letter he wrote to his brother, denouncing him for not accepting the bourgeois values.
- Could it be that in just two years the scourge of bourgeois values is now entering the American mainstream?
- In fact, throughout the 19th century, the French state was a bourgeois state which echoed middle-class needs and values.
- This was a prosperous time for Bavaria and there developed a flourishing art market, concentrating on conventional, unchallenging bourgeois genre pieces.
- The Middle East became the lover she could not have and a refuge from the bourgeois England of her family.
- The slate had to be cleaned of all bourgeois conventions, traditions and expectations.
- The sensuality of the dance and the lyrics emphasizing lowlife values and language challenged bourgeois morality and dominant views on appropriate female behavior.
Synonyms
middle-class, property-owning, propertied, shopkeeping
1. 1.1 (in Marxist contexts) upholding the interests of capitalism; not communist.
  （马克思主义理论中的）资产阶级的，资本家的；非共产主义的
  bourgeois society took for granted the sanctity of property
  资本主义社会认为保护私有财产的神圣性是理所当然的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was only with the development of capitalism, the capitalist market and the bourgeois state that minority languages were actively repressed.
  The social democrats gambled on bourgeois democracy and the stability of capitalism.
  Pivotal to such a bourgeois conception of socialism, is the bourgeois assessment of capitalism.
  At one point, Communists said that bourgeois democracy was a step forward from feudalism.
  British capitalism is a bourgeois democracy, and both bits of that label are important.
  Synonyms
  capitalistic, materialistic, money-oriented, commercial

noun

A bourgeois person.
资产阶级分子；中产阶级分子
a self-confessed and proud bourgeois
Example sentencesExamples
- Far from being typical of the Swiss bourgeois his enemies have described, his ideas were highly innovative and far ahead of his time.
- The play fails as tragedy not because Willy is a struggling bourgeois rather than a man of stature, but because he lacks the element of choice. He is a victim, not an anti-hero.
- My dreams differed from those of the common bourgeois.
- All the same, many bourgeois wore thick shoes, carried umbrellas, and tried to look as much like their own concierges as they could.
- At the end of 1968, a group of student rebels accused Li of being a ‘newly born bourgeois.’
- The rise of relativism, and its inevitable corollary, nihilism, represents the triumph of the bourgeois.
- Until the mid-seventeenth century, bourgeois and nobles in many regions used the local tongue among themselves, and even wrote literary works in them.
- Do this at the Opera House and the bourgeois in the front row would be shifting uncomfortably in their seats I'll wager.
- While nobles and bourgeois owned most of the land, peasants were left in control of it.
- The typical bourgeois of the middle years of the century was too busy making money to be bothered with politics.
- My first weekend off in a month, and I'm with Eton and the English bourgeois.
- In a phrase, he did not want to be a Communist so much as he wanted not to be a bourgeois.
- A State Council served as the consulting body, comprised mainly of Neapolitan nobles and bourgeois.
- It's in your hands now, you hip intellectual bourgeois!
- It attracted to its ranks many local bourgeois.
- It was a philosophy for the public sphere as well as a statement of the contemporary bourgeois.
- Just as nobles and bourgeois were defined by their lifestyle, so too were workers, with the common economic feature that they all worked with their hands.
- Nobles and bourgeois depended on extra-economic coercion to appropriate this mass of resources controlled by common subjects.
- In its completely developed form this family exists only among the bourgeois.
- By 1931 the uneasiness had extended to many conservative bourgeois who viewed the radicalism of the new movement with apprehension.
Synonyms
member of the middle class, property owner

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French, from late Latin burgus ‘castle’ (in medieval Latin ‘fortified town’), ultimately of Germanic origin and related to borough. Compare with burgess.

单词	bourgeois
释义	Definition of bourgeois in English: bourgeois adjective ˈbʊəʒwɑː 1Belonging to or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes. 中产阶级的；具有中产阶级保守特性的 a rich, bored, bourgeois family 一个富有、乏味的中产阶级家庭。 these views will shock the bourgeois critics 这些观点会使那些中产阶级的评论家感到震惊。 Example sentencesExamples People in the privileged classes can sniff at bourgeois values and still turn out O.K. because they eventually grow up. It thought it was so much better than its parents, those class-bound dinosaurs whose bourgeois values it thought it was systematically eliminating. Hippies seem to come from largely bourgeois families. Could it be that in just two years the scourge of bourgeois values is now entering the American mainstream? The sensuality of the dance and the lyrics emphasizing lowlife values and language challenged bourgeois morality and dominant views on appropriate female behavior. Bad memories resurface as each character's hidden resentment is revealed, from redundancy to marital rejection and disillusionment with bourgeois values. Divorces were concentrated among middle-class and bourgeois women living in the towns of northern France. Illegitimacy, welfare dependency, and criminality were more prevalent than in the South, with its much stronger bourgeois values. Sadly, this means that instead of remaining at the cutting edge of creativity, London designers are sometimes forced to take on bourgeois values. They both were scions of bourgeois families, raised and living in a typical middle class milieu. His work is critical of bourgeois values, particularly sexual repression, and exposes hypocrisy. In fact, throughout the 19th century, the French state was a bourgeois state which echoed middle-class needs and values. This was a prosperous time for Bavaria and there developed a flourishing art market, concentrating on conventional, unchallenging bourgeois genre pieces. What is remembered is their immorality and their rejection of bourgeois values applied to family, society and the formal concept of beauty. The more the peasant exerted himself in response to the government's plea for more production, the more he prospered and developed bourgeois attitudes. Rational recreation was best expressed in the suburban ideal of the bourgeois family home that had clearly emerged by 1850. He analyzed bourgeois culture which conveniently precluded his being absorbed by it. The Middle East became the lover she could not have and a refuge from the bourgeois England of her family. There's a famous letter he wrote to his brother, denouncing him for not accepting the bourgeois values. The slate had to be cleaned of all bourgeois conventions, traditions and expectations. Synonyms middle-class, property-owning, propertied, shopkeeping conventional, traditional, conservative, conformist ordinary, commonplace, provincial, parochial, suburban, small-town, parish-pump 1.1 (in Marxist contexts) upholding the interests of capitalism; not communist. （马克思主义理论中的）资产阶级的，资本家的；非共产主义的 bourgeois society took for granted the sanctity of property 资本主义社会认为保护私有财产的神圣性是理所当然的。 Example sentencesExamples British capitalism is a bourgeois democracy, and both bits of that label are important. Pivotal to such a bourgeois conception of socialism, is the bourgeois assessment of capitalism. It was only with the development of capitalism, the capitalist market and the bourgeois state that minority languages were actively repressed. The social democrats gambled on bourgeois democracy and the stability of capitalism. At one point, Communists said that bourgeois democracy was a step forward from feudalism. Synonyms capitalistic, materialistic, money-oriented, commercial informal, derogatory yuppie noun ˈbʊəʒwɑː A bourgeois person. 资产阶级分子；中产阶级分子 a self-confessed and proud bourgeois Example sentencesExamples My first weekend off in a month, and I'm with Eton and the English bourgeois. Do this at the Opera House and the bourgeois in the front row would be shifting uncomfortably in their seats I'll wager. It's in your hands now, you hip intellectual bourgeois! Far from being typical of the Swiss bourgeois his enemies have described, his ideas were highly innovative and far ahead of his time. The typical bourgeois of the middle years of the century was too busy making money to be bothered with politics. In a phrase, he did not want to be a Communist so much as he wanted not to be a bourgeois. All the same, many bourgeois wore thick shoes, carried umbrellas, and tried to look as much like their own concierges as they could. A State Council served as the consulting body, comprised mainly of Neapolitan nobles and bourgeois. While nobles and bourgeois owned most of the land, peasants were left in control of it. Nobles and bourgeois depended on extra-economic coercion to appropriate this mass of resources controlled by common subjects. My dreams differed from those of the common bourgeois. It was a philosophy for the public sphere as well as a statement of the contemporary bourgeois. Just as nobles and bourgeois were defined by their lifestyle, so too were workers, with the common economic feature that they all worked with their hands. In its completely developed form this family exists only among the bourgeois. By 1931 the uneasiness had extended to many conservative bourgeois who viewed the radicalism of the new movement with apprehension. It attracted to its ranks many local bourgeois. The play fails as tragedy not because Willy is a struggling bourgeois rather than a man of stature, but because he lacks the element of choice. He is a victim, not an anti-hero. At the end of 1968, a group of student rebels accused Li of being a ‘newly born bourgeois.’ Until the mid-seventeenth century, bourgeois and nobles in many regions used the local tongue among themselves, and even wrote literary works in them. The rise of relativism, and its inevitable corollary, nihilism, represents the triumph of the bourgeois. Synonyms member of the middle class, property owner Origin Mid 16th century: from French, from late Latin burgus 'castle' (in medieval Latin 'fortified town'), ultimately of Germanic origin and related to borough. Compare with burgess. borough from Old English: The early words burg and burh meant ‘a fortress’. Later they became ‘a fortified town’ and eventually ‘town’, ‘district’. Burgh is a Scots form. Burgher (mid 16th century) meaning ‘inhabitant of a borough’ was reinforced by Dutch burger, from burg ‘castle’. Bourgeois (late 17th century) adopted from French (from late Latin burgus ‘castle’) is related. An animal's defensive place, its burrow (Middle English) is a variant of borough. Rhymes Boyce, choice, Joyce, pro-choice, rejoice, Royce, voice Definition of bourgeois in US English: bourgeois adjective 1Of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes. 中产阶级的；具有中产阶级保守特性的 a rich, bored, bourgeois family 一个富有、乏味的中产阶级家庭。 these views will shock the bourgeois critics 这些观点会使那些中产阶级的评论家感到震惊。 Example sentencesExamples People in the privileged classes can sniff at bourgeois values and still turn out O.K. because they eventually grow up. Divorces were concentrated among middle-class and bourgeois women living in the towns of northern France. He analyzed bourgeois culture which conveniently precluded his being absorbed by it. His work is critical of bourgeois values, particularly sexual repression, and exposes hypocrisy. What is remembered is their immorality and their rejection of bourgeois values applied to family, society and the formal concept of beauty. Bad memories resurface as each character's hidden resentment is revealed, from redundancy to marital rejection and disillusionment with bourgeois values. The more the peasant exerted himself in response to the government's plea for more production, the more he prospered and developed bourgeois attitudes. Rational recreation was best expressed in the suburban ideal of the bourgeois family home that had clearly emerged by 1850. Illegitimacy, welfare dependency, and criminality were more prevalent than in the South, with its much stronger bourgeois values. It thought it was so much better than its parents, those class-bound dinosaurs whose bourgeois values it thought it was systematically eliminating. Hippies seem to come from largely bourgeois families. They both were scions of bourgeois families, raised and living in a typical middle class milieu. Sadly, this means that instead of remaining at the cutting edge of creativity, London designers are sometimes forced to take on bourgeois values. There's a famous letter he wrote to his brother, denouncing him for not accepting the bourgeois values. Could it be that in just two years the scourge of bourgeois values is now entering the American mainstream? In fact, throughout the 19th century, the French state was a bourgeois state which echoed middle-class needs and values. This was a prosperous time for Bavaria and there developed a flourishing art market, concentrating on conventional, unchallenging bourgeois genre pieces. The Middle East became the lover she could not have and a refuge from the bourgeois England of her family. The slate had to be cleaned of all bourgeois conventions, traditions and expectations. The sensuality of the dance and the lyrics emphasizing lowlife values and language challenged bourgeois morality and dominant views on appropriate female behavior. Synonyms middle-class, property-owning, propertied, shopkeeping 1.1 (in Marxist contexts) upholding the interests of capitalism; not communist. （马克思主义理论中的）资产阶级的，资本家的；非共产主义的 bourgeois society took for granted the sanctity of property 资本主义社会认为保护私有财产的神圣性是理所当然的。 Example sentencesExamples It was only with the development of capitalism, the capitalist market and the bourgeois state that minority languages were actively repressed. The social democrats gambled on bourgeois democracy and the stability of capitalism. Pivotal to such a bourgeois conception of socialism, is the bourgeois assessment of capitalism. At one point, Communists said that bourgeois democracy was a step forward from feudalism. British capitalism is a bourgeois democracy, and both bits of that label are important. Synonyms capitalistic, materialistic, money-oriented, commercial noun A bourgeois person. 资产阶级分子；中产阶级分子 a self-confessed and proud bourgeois Example sentencesExamples Far from being typical of the Swiss bourgeois his enemies have described, his ideas were highly innovative and far ahead of his time. The play fails as tragedy not because Willy is a struggling bourgeois rather than a man of stature, but because he lacks the element of choice. He is a victim, not an anti-hero. My dreams differed from those of the common bourgeois. All the same, many bourgeois wore thick shoes, carried umbrellas, and tried to look as much like their own concierges as they could. At the end of 1968, a group of student rebels accused Li of being a ‘newly born bourgeois.’ The rise of relativism, and its inevitable corollary, nihilism, represents the triumph of the bourgeois. Until the mid-seventeenth century, bourgeois and nobles in many regions used the local tongue among themselves, and even wrote literary works in them. Do this at the Opera House and the bourgeois in the front row would be shifting uncomfortably in their seats I'll wager. While nobles and bourgeois owned most of the land, peasants were left in control of it. The typical bourgeois of the middle years of the century was too busy making money to be bothered with politics. My first weekend off in a month, and I'm with Eton and the English bourgeois. In a phrase, he did not want to be a Communist so much as he wanted not to be a bourgeois. A State Council served as the consulting body, comprised mainly of Neapolitan nobles and bourgeois. It's in your hands now, you hip intellectual bourgeois! It attracted to its ranks many local bourgeois. It was a philosophy for the public sphere as well as a statement of the contemporary bourgeois. Just as nobles and bourgeois were defined by their lifestyle, so too were workers, with the common economic feature that they all worked with their hands. Nobles and bourgeois depended on extra-economic coercion to appropriate this mass of resources controlled by common subjects. In its completely developed form this family exists only among the bourgeois. By 1931 the uneasiness had extended to many conservative bourgeois who viewed the radicalism of the new movement with apprehension. Synonyms member of the middle class, property owner Origin Mid 16th century: from French, from late Latin burgus ‘castle’ (in medieval Latin ‘fortified town’), ultimately of Germanic origin and related to borough. Compare with burgess.
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