1. relating to or characteristic of the middle class, especially in being materialistic or conventional
Usage: often used critically
2. relating to capitalism or capitalists
Usage: political/economic context

1. a member of the middle class, especially one whose attitudes and behavior are conventional or materialistic
Usage: often used critically

Examples

• She rejected her bourgeois upbringing and became an artist.
• The neighborhood had a distinctly bourgeois atmosphere with its manicured lawns.
• He criticized what he saw as bourgeois values of wealth and status.
• The revolution aimed to overthrow the bourgeois ruling class.
• Her parents had typical bourgeois concerns about property and respectability.
• The café attracted bourgeois intellectuals who discussed politics over coffee.