borghese — meaning in English

English meaning

• bourgeois adj Relating to the middle class, often used to criticise conventional, materialistic, or overly comfortable values.
• burgher noun A resident of a town, usually one from the middle class.

Senses

borghese is used for these senses in English:

• bourgeois (Marxism) Of or relating to the capitalist class, (usually, _, pejorative) the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.
• bourgeois (history) An individual member of the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.
• burgher A prosperous member of the community; a middle-class citizen (may connote complacency).

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.

burgher — full definition

1. noun A resident of a town, usually one from the middle class.
2. noun A trader or merchant living in a medieval town.
3. noun A resident of a town in the Middle Ages.
4. noun A well-off, middle-class member of a community, sometimes seen as rather smug.

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