bourgeois

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

   A bourgeois mentality.

Unadapted borrowing from French bourgeois (“a class of citizens who were wealthier members of the Third Estate”), from Old French burgeis (“town dweller”), from Frankish *burg, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold; city”) (whence borough). Doublet of burgess; compare also burgish.

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