Bourgeois
bourgeois [ boor-zhwah ]
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[ noun, adjective ]
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MEANING :
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1. (n.) a member of the middle class
2.(adj.) conventional; middle-class.
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USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
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The bourgeois were often blamed for the state of the economy.
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USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
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There was a Marxist professor of history in Delhi University in the 1970s who used to brag in his lectures that "There are two interpretations of history: the Marxist and the bourgeois and the Marxist version is the correct one."
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