bourgeois lifestyle
- noun
- /ˈbʊrʒwɑːˌlɪfˌstaɪl/
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estilo de vida burgués
- Living a bourgeois lifestyle often means prioritizing secure jobs and a stable family environment.
Examples
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The bourgeois lifestyle is environmentally nonsustainable, and in truth the "Middle Class" has always been a peasant class with baubles made possible by the Industrial Revolution, i.e., the Rape of Earth.
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Many people aspire to a bourgeois lifestyle, enjoying comforts like spacious homes and modern appliances.
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I romanticize the bourgeois lifestyle, with a house, no... a HOME, warmth, food, a job... hell, even children maybe.
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Contrary to standard interpretations of women's motivation for entry into drug smuggling, Zulema was initially attracted to crime, including drug selling, by the opportunity it presented for adventure and revolt against bourgeois lifestyles.
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In her novel, the protagonist struggles with the pressures of maintaining a bourgeois lifestyle in a rapidly changing society.
Antonyms
How Bourgeois
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'bourgeois' qualifies the kind of 'lifestyle', so a learner who knows both words can infer a middle-class, materialistic way of living. While there are evaluative/cultural connotations, the core sense is transparently derived from the constituents and is cross-linguistically accessible.
Etymology
Bourgeois lifestyle comes from the French word bourgeois, which once meant a 'town person' or 'shop owner' who had a comfortable house and cared about being respectable. So bourgeois lifestyle now describes a middle-class way of living that focuses on comfort, being respectable, and material things.