Meaning

noun a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise

noun a member of the middle class

adjective (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class

originUnadapted borrowing from French bourgeois (“a class of citizens who were wealthier members of the Third Estate”), from Old French burgeis (“town dweller”), from Frankish *burg, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold; city”) (whence borough). Doublet of burgess; compare also burgish.

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