单词 | bourgeois |
释义 | bourgeois bourgeois1 /boor zhwah", boor"zhwah/; Fr. /boohrdd zhwann"/, n. , pl. bourgeois, adj. n. 1. a member of the middle class. 2. a person whose political, economic, and social opinions are believed to be determined mainly by concern for property values and conventional respectability. 3. a shopkeeper or merchant. adj. 4. belonging to, characteristic of, or consisting of the middle class. 5. conventional; middle-class. 6. dominated or characterized by materialistic pursuits or concerns. [1555-65; < MF; OF borgeis BURGESS] bourgeois2 /beuhr joys"/, n. Print. a size of type approximately 9-point, between brevier and long primer. [1815-25; perh. from a printer so named] |
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