Seigneur vs Bourgeois - What's the difference?
seigneur | bourgeois |
A feudal lord; a noble.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 156:
The hereditary feudal ruler of Sark.
* 2012 , Lauren Collins, The New Yorker , 29 Oct 2012:
A landowner in Canada; the holder of a seigneurie.
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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 a proper noun seigneur
is lord (god).As an adjective bourgeois is
of or relating to the middle class, especially its attitudes and conventions.As a noun bourgeois is
(political|collectively) the middle class.seigneur
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Alternative forms
* seigniorNoun
(en noun)- There was less and less love lost between peasants and seigneurs . The services which the latter had provided for the peasant community in the past had diminished in value.
- Beaumont lives on Sark, a small, autonomous island twenty-five miles off the coast of Normandy, with her husband, Michael, the island's seigneur .
bourgeois
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Alternative forms
* burgeoisAdjective
(en adjective)- bourgeois opinion