English-French translations for bourgeois

• bourgeois
  Les décisions de l'Union européenne et des gouvernements bourgeois des États membres vont dans ce sens. The decisions by the European Union and the bourgeois governments of its Member States move in this direction.
  Intervention de M. Cohn-Bendit : Non, j'ai dit que vous étiez le parti des bourgeois ... Interruption by Mr Cohn-Bendit: No, I said you were the bourgeois party ...
  Encore une fois, nous assistons à une mascarade où les représentants politiques du capital et les gouvernements bourgeois se disputent le droit de manipuler la population. Yet again, a farce is being played out between the political representatives of capital and the bourgeois governments in order to manipulate the people.
• bourgeoisement
• gaillarde
• petit-romain

Definition of bourgeois

• Of or relating to the middle class, their presumed overly conventional, conservative, and materialistic values
• Of or relating to the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime
• The middle class
• A person of any class with bourgeois values and attitudes
• A capitalist, an exploiter of the proletariat
• To make bourgeois
• A size of type between brevier and long primer, standardized as 9-point

Examples

• bourgeois opinion

Related words

• bourgeoisie
• Luxembourgeois
• bourgeoisification
• embourgeoisement
• antibourgeois
• bourgeoisify
• de-bourgeoisify
• bourgeois democracy
• petit bourgeois