: a middle-class person. : burgher. : a person with social behavior and political views held to be influenced by private-property interest : capitalist.
The adjective bourgeois means relating to or typical of the middle class. If someone says, "Oh, how bourgeois!" it's probably an insult, meaning you're preoccupied with middle-class small-mindedness. As a noun, a bourgeois is a member of the middle class, originally a member of the middle class in France.
(bʊərʒwɑ ) adjective. If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle-class people. [disapproval]
The bourgeoisie (/ˌbʊərʒwɑːˈziː/ ( listen) BOORZH-wah-ZEE, French: [buʁʒwazi] ( listen)) is a social class, equivalent to the middle or upper middle class. They are distinguished from, and traditionally contrasted with, the proletariat by their affluence, and their great cultural and financial capital.
noun. A woman belonging to the middle class. American Heritage.
People have traditionally viewed the bourgeoisie as kind of crass and pretentious. The word yuppie could be a more contemporary synonym for bourgeoisie. In communist writing, the bourgeoisie are the capitalist class, as opposed to the workers (the proletariat).
'Boujee' is an intentional misspelling of 'bougie,' which is slang for bourgeois, and refers to the materialism of society's middle class.”
Gallup has, for a number of years, asked Americans to place themselves -- without any guidance -- into five social classes: upper, upper-middle, middle, working and lower. These five class labels are representative of the general approach used in popular language and by researchers.
Bourgeoisie vs. Bourgeois Check: Bourgeoisie only refers to the middle class as a whole, while bourgeois can also refer to an individual member of this social class. Since bourgeoisie has an extra E, which is the letter that begins entire, it's easy to remember that bourgeoisie refers to the entire middle class.
What this trend means now is clothing that is grown-up but not old, a look that is considered but not prescribed and an overall feeling of feminine dressing but not ladylike.
A bourgeois value is a value that, when articulated, seeks to obscure, by use of either specific language terms or particular actions of a euphemistic nature, some reality that offends against a perceived general sensibility or sensibilities.
What does bourgeoisie mean? The term bourgeoisie refers to the social order that is dominated by the so-called middle class. In social and political theory, the notion of the bourgeoisie was largely a construct of Karl Marx and of those influenced by him.
It is derived from the word 'bourgeois'- meaning middle to upper class. In modern times the term "bougie" has been adopted by the youth to mean that someone is looking fancy and is usually a positive term.
The terms plutocrat and plutocracy are almost always used in a critical or derogatory way.
They are: 'established affluent', 'emergent affluent', 'mobile middle', 'established middle, and 'established working'. > The classes are based on respondents' economic, social and cultural capital. >
' Most studies show that teachers are middle class in their outlook and background.
Boujee, popularized by the song Bad and Boujee by Migos, primarily refers to Black people who have "swag" (cool/stylish clothes, cars, etc) by making their own money. Both terms are short for bourgie (pronounced just like bougie), which itself is short for the French term bourgeoisie (boo-zhwah-ZEE).
bougie {feminine}
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Some common synonyms of rich are affluent, opulent, and wealthy.
elite. nounhigh-class persons. aristocracy. beautiful people. best.
unclassy in British English
(ʌnˈklɑːsɪ ) adjectiveWord forms: -sier or -siest. informal. not classy or stylish; inelegant; tasteless.