how to pronounce bourgeois

/bəɹʒˈwɑː/

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bourgeois is pronounced in two syllables

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bəɹʒwɑː

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An example use of bourgeois in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… a lot of the more bourgeois people black …”

meaning of bourgeois

Bourgeois is a term used to describe a person who is middle class.

bourgeois frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word bourgeois occurs in english on average 2.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics bourgeois can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that bourgeois can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;

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