English-Portuguese translations for bourgeois

• burguês
  O BCE actuou como o assistente burguês da plutocracia, passando o ónus da crise para os trabalhadores. The ECB has acted as the bourgeois assistant of the plutocracy in shifting the burden of the crisis on to the workers' shoulders.
• burguesa
  O sistema capitalista é indissociável do crime organizado, mesmo no sentido em que o entende a justiça burguesa. Organised crime is part and parcel of the capitalist system, even where bourgeois justice is concerned.
  Constitui igualmente um golpe na célebre independência operacional da Justiça, da qual tanto se vangloriava a democracia burguesa. It is also an insult to the famous operational independence of the judiciary of which bourgeois democracies are so proud.
  A Constituição Europeia está morta e tentar ressuscitá-la é espezinhar os próprios princípios sobre unanimidade da pseudodemocracia burguesa da UE. The European Constitution is dead and to attempt to resuscitate it is to ride roughshod even over those principles of unanimity of the bourgeois pseudo-democracy of the ΕU.

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