mieszczanka — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bourgeois adj Relating to the middle class, often used to criticise conventional, materialistic, or overly comfortable values.
- burgher noun A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
- townswoman noun A woman who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town.
Senses
mieszczanka is used for these senses in English:
- bourgeois (history) An individual member of the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.
- burgher A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
- city slicker (colloquial) One accustomed to a city or urban lifestyle or unsuited to life in the country.
- townsperson An inhabitant of a town.
- townswoman A woman who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town.
- urbanite Someone who lives in a city or similar urban area.
bourgeois — full definition
- adj Relating to the middle class, often used to criticise conventional, materialistic, or overly comfortable values.
- noun A member of the middle or property-owning class.
burgher — full definition
- noun A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
- noun A member of the medieval mercantile class.
- noun A citizen of a medieval city.
- noun A prosperous member of the community; a middle-class citizen (may connote complacency).