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Definition of Bourgeoisie

1. Noun. The social class between the lower and upper classes.

Definition of Bourgeoisie

1. n. The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.

Definition of Bourgeoisie

1. Noun. a class of citizens who were wealthier members of the Third Estate ¹

2. Noun. (Marxism) The capitalist class. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bourgeoisie

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bourgeoisie

Literary usage of Bourgeoisie

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Criminality and Economic Conditions by Willem Adriaan Bonger (1916)
"B. THE PETTY bourgeoisie. In reality the line of demarcation between the ... Just as there are numerous gradations in the bourgeoisie, so are there in the ..."

2. The History of Ten Years, 1830-1840: Or, France Under Louis Philippe by Louis Blanc (1848)
"Thus it was, that on and after the 26th, it was rumoured among the bourgeoisie that it had been resolved to close the workshops and to turn out the workmen, ..."

3. The New York Times Current History (1919)
"WIPING OUT THE bourgeoisie N. Bukharin, a Bolshevist leader, ma pamphlet entitled " The Program of the Communist Party, or Bolsheviki," expounded the stand ..."

4. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"The word bourgeoisie from that time forth changed its meaning. ... By the bourgeoisie is now understood that part of society which represents property ..."

5. Bolshevism: The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by John Spargo (1919)
"... CHAPTER V FROM bourgeoisie TO BOLSHEVIKI IT required no great gift of prophecy to foretell the failure of the Provisional Government established by the ..."

6. France Under Louis XV by James Breck Perkins (1897)
"l <^ Amid other changes the bourgeoisie was growing in social and political importance. Discontented radicals assert that the middle classes have ..."

7. The Beginnings of Modern Europe (1250-1450) by Ephraim Emerton (1917)
"bourgeoisie It was a very meager gathering, quite without the an ... For a time it seemed as if the Parisian bourgeoisie acting with the Jacquerie might ..."

8. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"In these and similar ways this section of the bourgeoisie showed its detachment from a regime which recognised in religion (since it preached resignation) a ..."

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