bourgeoisie
See also: Bourgeoisie
English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French bourgeoisie, from bourgeois (“a class of citizens who were wealthier members of the Third Estate”), from bourgeois, “burghers”, i.e., townspeople.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌbʊə(ɹ)ʒwɑːˈziː/
Audio (Canada) (file)
Noun
bourgeoisie (usually uncountable, plural bourgeoisies)
- (historical) A class of citizens who were wealthier members of the third estate.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:bourgeoisie.
- (Marxism) The capitalist class.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:bourgeoisie.
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
class
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Dutch
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French bourgeoisie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌbur.ʒʋaːˈzi/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: bour‧geoi‧sie
- Rhymes: -i
Descendants
- → Indonesian: borjuasi
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French bourgesie, borgoisie (“citizenship”). By surface analysis, bourgeois + -ie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /buʁ.ʒwa.zi/
Audio (file)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Arabic: برجوازية (burjuwāziyya)
- → Chinese: 布爾喬亞／布尔乔亚 (bù'ěrqiáoyà, bù'ěrqiáoyǎ)
- → Czech: buržoazie
- → Danish: bourgeoisi
- → English: bourgeoisie
- → Dutch: bourgeoisie
- → German: Bourgeoisie
- → Macedonian: буржуазија (buržuazija)
- → Lithuanian: buržuazija
- → Polish: burżuazja
- → Romanian: burghezie
- → Russian: буржуазия (buržuazija)
- → Armenian: բուրժուազիա (buržuazia)
- → Azerbaijani: burjuaziya
- → Georgian: ბურჟუაზია (buržuazia)
- → Kazakh: буржуазия (burjuaziä)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: буржоазија
- Latin script: buržoazija
- → Slovene: buržoazija
- → Swedish: bourgeoisie
- → Turkish: burjuvazi
Further reading
- “bourgeoisie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French bourgeoisie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɔɕɔ̯asiː/
Declension
| Declension of bourgeoisie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | bourgeoisie | bourgeoisien | — | — |
| Genitive | bourgeoisies | bourgeoisiens | — | — |
See also
References
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