burguês
See also: burgués
Portuguese
editEtymology
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese burges, from Late Latin burgēnsis. Compare Galician and Spanish burgués, Catalan burgès, French bourgeois and Italian borghese.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: bur‧guês
Adjective
editburguês (feminine burguesa, masculine plural burgueses, feminine plural burguesas)
Noun
editburguês m (plural burgueses, feminine burguesa, feminine plural burguesas)
- (historical) burgher (inhabitant of a mediaeval burgh)
- (Marxism) bourgeois (member of the upper class)
- (Portugal, derogatory) bourgeois (person with overly conventional and materialistic values)
- (Brazil, informal) a middle- or upper-class person; moneybags
Further reading
edit- “burguês”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “burguês”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
- “burguês” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “burguês”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “burguês”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “burguês”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
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