bourgeois in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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I.bourgeois [Brit ˈbʊəʒwɑː, Am bʊrˈʒwɑ, ˈbʊrʒwɑ] N

II.bourgeois [Brit ˈbʊəʒwɑː, Am bʊrˈʒwɑ, ˈbʊrʒwɑ] ADJ

petit bourgeois [Brit pəˌti ˈbʊəʒwɑː, ˌpɛti ˈbʊəʒwɑː, Am ˌpɛdi ˈbʊrʒwɑ, pəˌti bʊrˈʒwɑ] N ADJ

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bourgeois in the PONS Dictionary

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Bourgeois concurred, adding that female students filled the swamp and conducted fire drills.
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In 1948, genetics was officially declared a bourgeois pseudoscience; all geneticists were fired from work (some were also arrested), and all genetic research was discontinued.
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They predicted that a proletarian revolution would eventually overthrow bourgeois capitalism and create a classless, stateless, post-monetary society.
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The bourgeois parties maintained their dominance but formed unstable governments while socialists remained the largest elected party numerically.
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These things were regarded as symbols of bourgeois lifestyle, that represented wealth.
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And yet, the nobles clung stubbornly to power, and they, not the bourgeois, continued to be the model that everyone wanted to imitate.
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This added a measure of resentment to the petit bourgeois identity.
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It was also more bourgeois, being essentially created by citizens for citizens, with their tastes and their concerns in mind.
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The bourgeois liberals were also discredited; many of them left politics disappointed and under great hostility from their fellow citizens in the individual states.
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The bourgeois and the bourgeois spirit were exploited, with the latter being used to manipulate the public.
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