Bourgeois Definition
- townee
- towner
- townfolk
- businessperson
- burgher
- townswoman
- exurbanite
- babbittish
Origin of Bourgeois
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Borrowed from French bourgeois (“a class of citizens who were wealthier members of the Third Estate”), from Anglo-Norman burgeis (“town dweller”), from Old French borjois, from borc (“town”), from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“fortress”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrgʰ- (“fortified elevation”). The path from Proto-Germanic to Old French is unclear. Perhaps via Frankish *burg or Late Latin *burgus, or possibly both. See also the related word burgess.
From Wiktionary
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French from Old French burgeis citizen of a town from bourg bourg bourg
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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