porvari

Finnish

pronunciation
Definitions
  • (historical) merchant, shopowner
  • (politics) a person having bourgeois opinions; a bourgeois
  • (politics) bourgeois, capitalist
  • (in compounds) bourgeois, bourgeoisie, right-wing, non-socialist, conservative

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish borgare (bourgeois) derived from French bourgeois (a class of citizens who were wealthier members of the Third Estate).

Origin

French

bourgeois

Gloss

a class of citizens who were wealthier members of the Third Estate

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