as in poor
belonging to the class of people of middle social or economic rank
The neighborhood was occupied primarily by bourgeois families.
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Recent Examples of bourgeois
Some transplants want to live in Nice’s Old Town in historic bourgeois buildings — a more expensive location for apartments that can be pricey to maintain.
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Marnie Hunter, CNN Money, 29 May 2025
Stay Here: In Bilbao’s bourgeois enclave of Neguri, Palacio Arriluce is a palace-turned-49-room hotel where Queen Anne and neo-Gothic flourishes evoke the charm of a grand English manor — complete with a croquet lawn overlooking the Biscayan coast.
—Siobhan Reid, Vogue, 28 May 2025
Sordi stars as Fabio, a bank clerk who has an utterly complacent attitude about the bourgeois comforts of his life.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 6 May 2025
The film follows a single mother and her teenage son in a bourgeois house near the port of Beirut.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 15 May 2025
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Marnie Hunter, CNN Money, 29 May 2025
Stay Here: In Bilbao’s bourgeois enclave of Neguri, Palacio Arriluce is a palace-turned-49-room hotel where Queen Anne and neo-Gothic flourishes evoke the charm of a grand English manor — complete with a croquet lawn overlooking the Biscayan coast.
—Siobhan Reid, Vogue, 28 May 2025
Sordi stars as Fabio, a bank clerk who has an utterly complacent attitude about the bourgeois comforts of his life.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 6 May 2025
The film follows a single mother and her teenage son in a bourgeois house near the port of Beirut.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bourgeois
Adjective
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Spurred by climate change, Canadian wildfires have increasingly exacerbated poor air quality across Milwaukee and southern Wisconsin.—
Maia Pandey,
jsonline.com,
24 July 2025
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Other critical factors that led to several brands exiting Japan, like Ford in 2016, were insufficient product lineups, and a poor dealer network.—
Peter Lyon,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
Adjective
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Urban and middle-class Dominicans looked down on bachata as the music played in brothels and favored by poor, rural people who started to migrate to urban areas in large numbers in the 1960s.—
Wilfredo José Burgos Matos,
The Conversation,
25 July 2025
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According to Suozzi, the Share Holder Allocation for Rewards to Employees (SHARE) Plan Act, when fully implemented, could result in nearly $4 trillion in stock value being transferred to almost 40 million middle-class Americans.—
Laya Neelakandan,
CNBC,
25 July 2025
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“Bourgeois.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bourgeois. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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