A member of the middle class, typically characterized by a concern for material wealth and conventional respectability.
The bourgeois were often seen as the backbone of the industrial economy.
A person whose political, economic, and social opinions are believed to be determined mainly by concern for property values and conventional respectability.
He was criticized for his bourgeois attitudes towards art and culture.
In Marxist theory, an owner of the means of production; a capitalist as opposed to a worker (proletarian).
Marx predicted that the proletariat would eventually overthrow the bourgeois.