Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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middle-class | No | Yes | No | No |
bourgeois | Yes | Yes | No | No |
middle-class (noun) | bourgeois (noun) |
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a member of the middle class | |
a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise |
middle-class (adjective) | bourgeois (adjective) |
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occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy | (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 |