BOURGEOISIE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bourgeoisie mean? 

• BOURGEOISIE (noun)
  The noun BOURGEOISIE has 1 sense:

1. the social class between the lower and upper classes

  Familiarity information: BOURGEOISIE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOURGEOISIE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The social class between the lower and upper classes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

bourgeoisie; middle class

Hypernyms ("bourgeoisie" is a kind of...):

class; social class; socio-economic class; stratum (people having the same social, economic, or educational status)

Meronyms (members of "bourgeoisie"):

bourgeois; burgher (a member of the middle class)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bourgeoisie"):

petit bourgeois; petite bourgeoisie; petty bourgeoisie (lower middle class (shopkeepers and clerical staff etc.))

 Context examples 

All that is dearest to the bourgeoisie I will flout.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Once, walking with Lizzie toward night school, she caught a glance directed toward him by a well-gowned, handsome woman of the bourgeoisie.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Difference between him—and the bourgeoisie is that he robs without illusion.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

What under heaven do you want with a daughter of the bourgeoisie?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They were good and kindly people, he forced himself to acknowledge, and in the moment of acknowledgment he qualified—good and kindly like all the bourgeoisie, with all the psychological cramp and intellectual futility of their kind, they bored him when they talked with him, their little superficial minds were so filled with emptiness; while the boisterous high spirits and the excessive energy of the younger people shocked him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The bourgeoisie is cowardly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was the bourgeoisie that bought his books and poured its gold into his money-sack, and from what little he knew of the bourgeoisie it was not clear to him how it could possibly appreciate or comprehend what he had written.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As the gang could not understand him, as his own family could not understand him, as the bourgeoisie could not understand him, so this girl beside him, whom he honored high, could not understand him nor the honor he paid her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then again, each day was so many hours long, and, since he no longer was occupied with writing and studying, those hours had to be occupied somehow; so he yielded to what was to him a whim, permitted interviews, gave his opinions on literature and philosophy, and even accepted invitations of the bourgeoisie.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)