Real Dictionary

bourgeois
adjective: If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle-class people.

bourgeois in American English
a freeman of a medieval town
of or characteristic of a bourgeois or the bourgeoisie; middle-class; also used variously to mean conventional, smug, materialistic, etc.

bourgeois in American English 1
adjective: belonging to, characteristic of, or consisting of the middle class
noun: a member of the middle class

bourgeois in American English 2
noun: a size of type approximately 9-point, between brevier and long primer

Bourgeois in British English
noun: Léon Victor Auguste (leɔ̃ viktɔr oɡyst ). 1851–1925, French statesman; first chairman of the League of Nations: Nobel peace prize 1920

bourgeois in British English 1
adjective: characteristic of, relating to, or comprising the middle class
noun: a member of the middle class, esp one regarded as being conservative and materialistic or (in Marxist thought) a capitalist exploiting the working class

bourgeois in British English 2
noun: (formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 9 point