burguês

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See also: burgués

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese burges, from Late Latin burgēnsis. Compare Galician and Spanish burgués, Catalan burgès, French bourgeois and Italian borghese.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: bur‧guês

Adjective

burguês (feminine burguesa, masculine plural burgueses, feminine plural burguesas)

  1. bourgeois
  2. (Portugal) philistine

Noun

burguês m (plural burgueses, feminine burguesa, feminine plural burguesas)

  1. (historical) burgher (inhabitant of a mediaeval burgh)
  2. (Marxism) bourgeois (member of the upper class)
  3. (Portugal, derogatory) bourgeois (person with overly conventional and materialistic values)
    Synonyms: rico, (slang) grã-fino
  4. (Brazil, informal) a middle- or upper-class person; moneybags

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