měšťák — meaning in English

English meaning

• bourgeois adj Relating to the middle class, often used to criticise conventional, materialistic, or overly comfortable values.
• townsman noun A man who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town.

Senses

měšťák is used for these senses in English:

• bourgeois (usually, pejorative) A person of any class with bourgeois (i.e., overly conventional and materialistic) values and attitudes.
• bourgeois (history) An individual member of the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.
• city slicker (colloquial) One accustomed to a city or urban lifestyle or unsuited to life in the country.
• townsman A man who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town.

bourgeois — full definition

1. adj Relating to the middle class, often used to criticise conventional, materialistic, or overly comfortable values.
2. noun A member of the middle or property-owning class.

townsman — full definition

1. noun A man who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town.
2. noun A resident of a university town, as opposed to a scholar at the university; a townie.
3. noun Synonym of oppidan (“type of student”).

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