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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

  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 citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
  2. noun A member of the medieval mercantile class.
  3. noun A citizen of a medieval city.
  4. noun A prosperous member of the community; a middle-class citizen (may connote complacency).

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