1 belonging to the middle class:
a traditional bourgeois family
seealsoPETITBOURGEOIS
2 (disapproving) interested mainly in possessions and social status and supporting traditional values:
bourgeois attitudes / tastes * They've become very bourgeois since they got married.
3 (politics) supporting the interests of CAPITALISM:
bourgeois ideology
bourgeois noun (plural bourgeois)
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