Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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bourgeois | Yes | Yes | No | No |
petit bourgeois | Yes | No | No | No |
bourgeois (noun) | petit bourgeois (noun) |
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a member of the middle class | lower middle class (shopkeepers and clerical staff etc.) |
a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | a member of the lower middle class |
bourgeois (adjective) | petit bourgeois (adjective) |
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(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 |