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The prototypical bourgeois, Monsieur Jourdain, the protagonist in Molière's play Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1670) Bourgeois values are dependent on rationalism, which began with the economic sphere and moves into every sphere of life which is formulated by Max Weber. [36] The beginning of rationalism is commonly called the Age of Reason. Much ...
The term was borrowed in Romanian slang with the meaning of "person" or "lover" Gaco In Turkish Gaco means "the Gypsy"; the Turkish Cypriots use this term for the mainland Turkish people. Gaijin (Japan) anybody not ethnic Japanese, though most widely used to describe whites and non-Asians. Sometimes intended to be derogatory.
Beurgeois is a portmanteau neologism created in France from the words "beur" (meaning a person of Arab, Berber or other Maghrebi descent in verlan) and "bourgeois" (meaning affluent). [1] Among the beurgeois themselves, opinion over the beurgeois designation is quite divided.
Portrait of a Burgher (c. 1660) by Lucas Franchoys the Younger. Burgher was a rank or title of a privileged citizen of a medieval to early modern European town. Burghers formed the pool from which city officials could be drawn, [citation needed] and their immediate families that formed the social class of the medieval bourgeoisie.
The proletariat (/ ˌ p r oʊ l ɪ ˈ t ɛər i ə t /; from Latin proletarius 'producing offspring') is the social class of wage-earners, those members of a society whose possession of significant economic value is their labour power (their capacity to work). [1]
Feroz-ul-Lughat Urdu Jamia (Urdu: فیروز الغات اردو جامع) is an Urdu-to-Urdu dictionary published by Ferozsons (Private) Limited. It was originally compiled by Maulvi Ferozeuddin in 1897. The dictionary contains about 100,000 ancient and popular words, compounds, derivatives, idioms, proverbs, and modern scientific, literary ...
Bobo is a portmanteau word used to describe the socio-economic bourgeois-bohemian group in France, the French analogue to the English notion of the "champagne socialist".The geographer Christophe Guilluy has used the term to describe France's elite class, whom he accuses of being responsible for many of France's current problems.
Bourgeois is the adjectival form of the French bourgeoisie, a loosely defined designated group characterized by private wealth, an upper class social status, and its related culture. Bourgeois may also refer to: Bourgeois (surname) bourgeois (typography), the name of the type size between brevier and long primer