bourgeois

Definitions of bourgeois

adj (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class

Synonyms:: capitalist, capitalistic
favoring or practicing capitalism

adj belonging to the middle class

Synonyms:: middle-class
occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy

adj conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

“a bourgeois mentality”

Synonyms:: conservative, materialistic

: middle-class
occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy

n a member of the middle class

Synonyms:: burgher

Types:: petit bourgeois
a member of the lower middle class

Type of:: common man, common person, commoner
a person who holds no title

n a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise

Synonyms:: businessperson

Examples:: show 50 examples...; hide 50 examples...; William Maxwell Aitken
British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964); Andrew Carnegie
United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919); Peter Cooper
United States industrialist who built the first American locomotive; founded Cooper Union in New York City to offer free courses in the arts and sciences (1791-1883); Ezra Cornell
United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874); Glenn Hammond Curtiss
United States industrialist and aviation pioneer (1878-1930); Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and automobile manufacturer who produced the first high-speed internal combustion engine (1834-1900); John Deere
United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886); George Eastman
United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932); Henry Ford
United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947); Edsel Bryant Ford
son of Henry Ford (1893-1943); Henry Ford II
grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987); Henry Clay Frick
United States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry (1849-1919); William Henry Gates
United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955); King Camp Gilette
United States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (1855-1932); Meyer Guggenheim
United States industrialist (born in Switzerland) who with his sons established vast mining and metal processing companies (1828-1905); Alfred Charles William Harmsworth
British newspaper publisher (1865-1922); Edward Henry Harriman
United States railway tycoon (1848-1909); Benjamin Harris
publisher of the first newspaper printed in America (1673-1713); Charles Henry Harrod
English merchant who took over a shop in London that was expanded by his son into a prestigious department store (1800-1885); Charles Digby Harrod
English merchant who expanded his father's shop in London into a prestigious department store (1841-1905); William Randolph Hearst
United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism (1863-1951); Henry John Heinz
United States industrialist who manufactured and sold processed foods (1844-1919); James Jerome Hill
United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916); William Henry Hoover
United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932); Howard Robard Hughes
United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976); Collis Potter Huntington
United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900); Friedrich Krupp
German industrialist who manufactured steel in Essen (1787-1826); Edwin Herbert Land
United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991); First Baron Marks of Broughton
English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964); First Viscount Nuffield
British industrialist who manufactured automobiles and created a philanthropic foundation (1877-1963); Wilhelm von Opel
German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948); Elisha Graves Otis
United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861); Robert Owen
Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858); Sir Frederick Handley Page
English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962); Joseph Pulitzer
United States newspaper publisher (born in Hungary) who established the Pulitzer prizes (1847-1911); John Davison Rockefeller
United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937); David Sarnoff
United States businessman who pioneered in radio and television broadcasting (1891-1971); James Edmund Scripps
United States newspaper publisher and half-brother of Edward Wyllis Scripps (1835-1908); Edward Wyllis Scripps
United States newspaper publisher who founded an important press association; half-brother of James Edmund Scripps (1854-1926); Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky
United States industrialist (born in Russia) who designed the first four-engine airplane and the first mass-produced helicopter (1889-1972); Sir Clive Marles Sinclair
English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940); Ernest Solvay
Belgian chemist who developed the Solvay process and built factories exploiting it (1838-1922); Leland Stanford
United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893); George Stephenson
English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848); Henry Villard
United States railroad magnate and businessman (1835-1900); John Wanamaker
United States businessman whose business grew into one of the first department stores (1838-1922); Aaron Montgomery Ward
United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913); Frank Winfield Woolworth
United States businessman who opened a shop in 1879 selling low-priced goods and built it into a national chain of stores (1852-1919); Rudolf Wurlitzer
United States businessman (born in German) who founded a company to make pipe organs (1831-1914); Gustavus Franklin Swift
United States meat-packer who began the use of refrigerated railroad cars (1839-1903)

Types:: show 66 types...; hide 66 types...; accountant, comptroller, controller
someone who maintains and audits business accounts; account executive, account representative, customer's broker, customer's man, registered representative
someone in charge of a client's account for an advertising agency or brokerage or other service business; agent, broker, factor
a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission; businessman, man of affairs
a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive); businesswoman
a female businessperson; enterpriser, entrepreneur
someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it; exporter
a businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale); importer
someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country); merchandiser, merchant
a businessperson engaged in retail trade; shipper
someone who ships goods; provider, supplier
someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity; auctioneer
an agent who conducts an auction; amalgamator
a businessman who arranges an amalgamation of two or more commercial companies; arb, arbitrager, arbitrageur
someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential); auditor
a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization; baker
someone who bakes commercially; baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon
a very wealthy or powerful businessman; bean counter
an accountant or bureaucrat who is believed to place undue emphasis on the control of expenditures; black marketeer
someone who engages illegally in trade in scarce or controlled commodities; book seller, bookdealer
a dealer in books; a merchant who sells books; bookkeeper
someone who records the transactions of a business; butcher, meatman
a retailer of meat; caterer
someone who provides food and service (as for a party); CPA, certified public accountant
an accountant who has passed certain examinations and met all other statutory and licensing requirements of a United States state to be certified by that state; chartered accountant
a British or Canadian accountant who is a member of a professional body that has a royal charter; clothier, haberdasher
a merchant who sells men's clothing; connection
a supplier (especially of narcotics); consigner, consignor
the person who delivers over or commits merchandise; cost accountant
a specialist in the systematic recording and analysis of the costs incident to production; dispenser
a person who dispenses; distributer, distributor
someone who markets merchandise; grain merchant
a merchant who deals in food grains; grocer
a retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies); hatmaker, hatter, milliner, modiste
someone who makes and sells hats; industrialist
someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise; general agent, insurance agent, insurance broker, underwriter
an agent who sells insurance; investment banker, underwriter
a banker who deals chiefly in underwriting new securities; jeweler, jeweller
someone in the business of selling jewelry; brothel keeper, madam
a woman who runs a house of prostitution; oilman
a person who owns or operates oil wells; operator
someone who owns or operates a business; owner, proprietor
(law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business; poulterer, poultryman
a dealer in poultry and poultry products; purveyor
someone who supplies provisions (especially food); estate agent, house agent, land agent, real estate agent, real estate broker
a person who is authorized to act as an agent for the sale of land; recruiter
someone who supplies members or employees; retail merchant, retailer
a merchant who sells goods at retail; rug merchant
a merchant who sells rugs; salt merchant, salter
someone who makes or deals in salt; schlockmeister, shlockmeister
(slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise; marketer, seller, trafficker, vender, vendor
someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money; ship broker
an agent for the ship owner; obtains cargo and may arrange for its loading or discharge; market keeper, shopkeeper, storekeeper, tradesman
a merchant who owns or manages a shop; small businessman
a businessman who runs a business employing less than 100 people; stationer, stationery seller
a merchant who sells writing materials and office supplies; stockbroker
an agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bonds; stockist
one (as a retailer or distributor) that stocks goods; suit
(slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit; provisioner, sutler, victualer, victualler
a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army; syndic
one appointed to represent a city or university or corporation in business transactions; syndicator
a businessman who forms a syndicate; bargainer, dealer, monger, trader
someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold; transactor
someone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations; travel agent
someone who sells or arranges trips or tours for customers; merchant-venturer, venturer
a merchant who undertakes a trading venture (especially a venture that sends goods overseas); vintner, wine merchant
someone who sells wine

Type of:: capitalist
a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business)

adj (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class

adj belonging to the middle class

adj conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

n a member of the middle class

n a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise

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