Noun: bourgeois
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | bourgeois |
| Singular f | bourgeoise |
Sample Sentences
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Le Mufti commande aux Turcs de baſtonner le Bourgeois, […] (The mufti orders the Turks to batter the bourgeois, […]) [1680, Molière, “Acte IV, Scene V”, in Le Bourgeois gentilhomme [The Middle-Class Aristocrat], page 89:]
Nouns inflected like bourgeois
Léonais,
soumis,
Plaisirois,
Isérois,
Aalandais,
Dordognais,
Groenlandais,
Bhoutanais,
Saskatchewanais,
Ardéchois,
Longueillois,
Versaillais,
Bavarois,
Quimpérois,
Bujumburais,
Havrais,
Taïwanais,
Zœbersdorfois,
Kébécois,
Nîmois, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Old French borgeis
3. Middle French bourgois
4. French bourgeois
5. Inherited from Middle French bourgois, from Old French borgeis (“town dweller”), from Late Latin burgensis. By surface analysis, bourg + -ois.
Verbs referencing "bourgeois"
Dutch Nouns
bourgeois, Italian Nouns
borghese, Bulgarian Nouns
гражданин, Spanish Nouns
burgués, Portuguese Nouns
burguês, Belarusan Nouns
буржуй, Russian Nouns
буржуй, Ukrainian Nouns
буржуй, Romanian Nouns
burjui.
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