also plural in construction: members of the middle class
how the bourgeoisie are represented in the novel
2
: a class or group of people with social behavior and political views held to be influenced by private-property interest : a social order dominated by capitalists or bourgeois (see bourgeoisentry 2 sense 2)
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebIndeed, Rosalind may be a scion of the haute bourgeoisie, but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been pain and suffering in her life. Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2022 The national bourgeoisie increasingly turns its back on the interior, on the realities of a country gone to waste, and looks toward the former metropolis and the foreign capitalists who secure its services. Pankaj Mishra, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2021 Sempé captured the thin, fashionable haute bourgeoisie of Paris and mustachioed, beret-wearing townsfolk, all bearing hallmark hulking noses and replete with bicycles, baguettes, books and tractors. Jade Le Deley, ajc, 20 Aug. 2022 Her transitions from social observation to personal revelations (family home videos and her sister’s social work) sentimentalize exploitation of the working class by the bourgeoisie. Armond White, National Review, 13 July 2022 His clientele represented an ethnically diverse cross-section of Mombasa’s bourgeoisie—an urban, largely affluent class that had benefitted from the city’s postwar prosperity and who took an interest in documenting their own lives.The New Yorker, 1 June 2022 The Italian bourgeoisie of the turn of the century was determined to preserve its control over the working class, which had begun to form a more organized opposition to their industrialist employers. Thomas Meaney, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2022 As the historian Simon Sebag Montefiore’s work has shown, Stalin was a genuine Marxist intellectual who believed in class warfare and the evils of the bourgeoisie as much as any student at the Sorbonne. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022 But the shortcoming that shocks the most is that of the borghesia liberale, the liberal bourgeoisie, imbued with 19th-century ideals—a love of nation, individualism, and an economy free of government intervention. Anna Momigliano, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2022 See More