| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| bourgeoisie |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bour·geoi·sie |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b r zhwä-z  |
| NOUN: | 1. The middle class. 2. In Marxist theory, the social group opposed to the proletariat in the class struggle. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French, from bourgeois, bourgeois. See bourgeois.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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