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Bourgeoisie   /bˌʊrʒwˌɑzˈi/   Listen
Bourgeoisie

noun
1.
The social class between the lower and upper classes.  Synonym: middle class.



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petite bourgeoisie
petty bourgeoisie


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"Bourgeoisie" Quotes from Famous Books



... the modern fever of unrest. It has its bourgeoisie, its proletariat, its radicals, but also a city-beautiful association and a rather captious sanitary league. Lately a visiting radical, on the occasion of a certain patriotic celebration, expressed a conventional wish to spit ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson
... the city of Rome and its immediate environs, there were several sharp lines of cleavage; between Roman citizens and non-citizens; between the aristocracy, the bourgeoisie, the working proletariat and the idle proletariat; between the rich and the poor; between freeman (citizens) and the slaves who grew in numbers as the wars of conquest and consolidation multiplied war captives; between ...
— Civilization and Beyond - Learning From History • Scott Nearing


Words linked to "Bourgeoisie" :   bourgeois, stratum, burgher, socio-economic class, petit bourgeois, class, social class


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