bourgeois

1. 1.

   a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise

   Synonymsbusinessperson

   Broadercapitalist

   Narroweraccountantaccount executiveagentbusinessmanbusinesswomanentrepreneurexporterimportermerchantshipper
2. 2.

   a member of the middle class

   Synonymsburgher

   Broadercommoner

   Narrowerpetit bourgeois

   Part ofmiddle class

Other forms of bourgeois

plural

bourgeoises·

comparative

bourgeoiser·

superlative

bourgeoisest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bourgeois

What does bourgeois mean?

bourgeois means "(according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bourgeois?

bourgeois has 2 syllables: bour-geois. The stress falls on "geois". In IPA it is /bʊɹʒˈwɑ/.

What is another word for bourgeois?

Close synonyms include conservative, materialistic, businessperson, burgher. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bourgeois a common word?

bourgeois is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bourgeois?

6 words rhyme with bourgeois. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.