burgués — meaning in English

English meaning

• bougie adjective Fancy, expensive and a bit self-consciously upmarket, especially in a way that shows someone is trying to seem better off than they are.
• bourgeois adj Relating to the middle class, often used to criticise conventional, materialistic, or overly comfortable values.

Senses

burgués is used for these senses in English:

• bourgeois Of or relating to the middle class (often, pejorative) , and their presumed overly conventional, conservative, and materialistic values.
• bourgeois (Marxism) Of or relating to the capitalist class, (usually, _, pejorative) the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.
• middle-class Occupying a position between the upper class and the working class.

bougie — full definition

1. adjective Fancy, expensive and a bit self-consciously upmarket, especially in a way that shows someone is trying to seem better off than they are.
2. noun A person with expensive tastes or middle-class pretensions.
3. noun In medicine, a thin flexible instrument passed into a body passage to widen it or to check that it is clear.

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.

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