bourgeois vs businessman

businessman vs bourgeois

bourgeois and businessman both are nouns.

bourgeois is an adjective but businessman is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bourgeois	Yes	Yes	No	No
businessman	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, businessman is a hyponym of bourgeois; that is, businessman is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bourgeois:

bourgeois: a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
businessman: a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)

Other hyponyms of bourgeois include accountant, comptroller, controller, account executive, account representative, customer's broker, customer's man, registered representative, agent, broker, factor, man of affairs, businesswoman, enterpriser, entrepreneur, exporter, importer, merchandiser, merchant, shipper, provider, supplier.

bourgeois (noun)	businessman (noun)
a member of the middle class	a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)
a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise

bourgeois (adjective)	businessman (adjective)
(according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
belonging to the middle class
conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

Difference between bourgeois and businessman

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