Definition of "bourgeois" []

• A person belonging to the middle class. (noun)
• A person whose attitudes and behavior are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class. (noun)
• In Marxist theory, a member of the property-owning class; a capitalist. (noun)
• Of, relating to, or typical of the middle class. (adjective)
• Held to be preoccupied with respectability and material values. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "_Le bourgeois et sa dame_ would watch them with kindly interest, deeming it a kindness not to tell them that there were no trains after twelve; and when the lovers at last determined that they must depart, _le bourgeois_ and _la bourgeoise_ would tell them that their room was quite ready, that there was no possibility of returning to Paris that night."
• "He, for example, coined the term bourgeois, as we understand it."
• "She laughed heartily, teased Paul about his accent and what she called his bourgeois ideas."