[French] an address of formality or politeness in France from the 16th C , usually for a non-noble person However, a person addressed as NN, bourgeois de [place] might be a noble man who was involved in town affairs and wanted to keep the title bourgeois de [place] to maintain certain tax breaks
disapproval If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle-class people. He's accusing them of having a bourgeois and limited vision. see also petit bourgeois. French-born American sculptor whose often erotic sculptures are characterized by elongated figures and abstract shapes
conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"
a member of the middle class belonging to the middle class conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality" (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class