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bourgeois, proletariat
bourgeois (boor ZHWA, BOOR zhwa") (noun)
An individual or group that is perceived socially and economically as the middle class; a tendency towards material interests and respectability: By living in town, the farmer attempted to be a bourgeois in his lifestyle.
proletariat (pro" li TAR ee it) (noun)
Of or pertaining to the lower social or economic class in a community, such as industrial workers or laborers: The proletariat attempted to form a union at the linen mill in an effort to improve their living standards."
In the very class conscious society of the last century, there were clear distinctions between the bourgeois, who lived in grand houses, and the proletariat, who lived in small and crowded huts.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group B; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc.
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proli-, prol- +
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