Aristocrat vs Bourgeois - What's the difference?
aristocrat | bourgeois |
One of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in Revolutionary France).
A proponent of aristocracy; an advocate of aristocratic government.
* 1974 : (2nd edition, revised; Penguin Classics; ISBN 0140440488), Translator’s Introduction, pages 51 and 53:
Of or relating to the middle class, especially its attitudes and conventions.
Belonging to the middle class.
Conventional, conservative and materialistic.
(Marxism) Of or relating to capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.
(political, collectively) The middle class.
(rare) An individual member of the middle class.
A person with bourgeois values and attitudes.
An individual member of the bourgeoisie, one of the three estates.
(Marxism) Anyone deemed to be an exploiter of the proletariat, a capitalist.
(printing) A size of type between long primer and brevier.
As nouns the difference between aristocrat and bourgeois
is that aristocrat is one of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in revolutionary france) while bourgeois is (political|collectively) the middle class.As an adjective bourgeois is
of or relating to the middle class, especially its attitudes and conventions.aristocrat
English
(Aristocracy)Noun
(en noun)- Professor Fite, in The Platonic Legend , deprecates earlier idealization, and finds Plato to be an aristocrat , something of a snob, and the advocate of a restrictively organized society.
- Plato was, as has so often been observed, temperamentally an aristocrat . And he believed that the qualities needed in his rulers were, in general, hereditary, and that given knowledge and opportunity you could deliberately breed for them.
Hyponyms
* See alsobourgeois
English
Alternative forms
* burgeoisAdjective
(en adjective)- bourgeois opinion