adj.
1.(according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
2.conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
3.belonging to the middle class bourgeois n.
1.a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
2.a member of the middle class
Idiom of the Day
give off (something) or give (something) off
to release a smell or something, to produce a smell or something
The garbage was beginning to give off a bad smell because of the hot weather. The water began to give off steam when it began to boil.