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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

资产阶级

Pronunciation / Transliteration: zīchǎn jiējí

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Bourgeois/ˈbʊər.ʒwɑː/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"他的生活方式非常资产阶级,注重物质享受。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A member of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.

    "The bourgeois lifestyle often emphasizes comfort and consumerism over artistic or intellectual pursuits."
As adjective
  1. 1

    Characteristic of the bourgeois; relating to the middle class, especially in a derogatory sense.

    "His bourgeois tastes in art and fashion were evident at the gallery opening."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old French word 'burgeis', meaning an inhabitant of a walled town or borough, stemming from Late Latin 'burgensis'. Over centuries, particularly through Marxist theory and 19th-century European literature, the term evolved to denote the middle class, especially those whose status or conventional values are deemed materialistic or conventional.

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