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bourgeois

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Adjective bourgeois has 3 senses
  1. bourgeois - (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
    Antonyms:
    socialistic, socialist (indirect, via capitalistic)
  2. bourgeois, conservative, materialistic - conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"
    Antonym: upper-class (indirect, via lower-class, middle-class)
    Antonyms: lower-class, low-class (indirect, via middle-class, upper-class)
  3. bourgeois - belonging to the middle class
    Antonym:
    upper-class (indirect, via lower-class, middle-class)
    Antonyms: lower-class, low-class (indirect, via middle-class, upper-class)
Noun bourgeois has 2 senses
  1. businessperson, bourgeois - a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
    --1 is a kind of capitalist
    --1 has particulars:
     accountant, comptroller, controller; account executive, account representative, registered representative, customer's broker, customer's man; agent, factor, broker; businessman, man of affairs; businesswoman; entrepreneur, enterpriser; exporter; importer; merchant, merchandiser; shipper; supplier, provider
  2. bourgeois, burgher - a member of the middle class
    --2 is a kind of commoner, common man, common person
    --2 is a member of middle class, bourgeoisie
    --2 has particulars: petit bourgeois
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