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bourgeois vs merchant

merchant vs bourgeois

bourgeois and merchant both are nouns.

bourgeois is an adjective but merchant is not an adjective.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
bourgeois Yes Yes No No
merchant Yes No No No
As nouns, merchant is a hyponym of bourgeois; that is, merchant is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bourgeois:
  • bourgeois: a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
  • merchant: a businessperson engaged in retail trade
bourgeois (noun) merchant (noun)
a member of the middle class a businessperson engaged in retail trade
a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
bourgeois (adjective) merchant (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 merchant

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