embourgeoisement
French, noun/ɑ̃.buʁ.ʒwaz.mɑ̃/
embourgeoisement is spelled E-M-B-O-U-R-G-E-O-I-S-E-M-E-N-T (16 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 73,828th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Embourgeoisement is a French masculine noun meaning “bourgeoisification; embourgeoisement” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Adoption des manières de la bourgeoisie”.
What does embourgeoisement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebourgeoisification; embourgeoisement
- 2
masculinegentrification
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Adoption des manières de la bourgeoisie. 2. Domination par la bourgeoisie. 3. Processus par lequel le profil sociologique et social d’un quartier, d’une ville, se transforme au profit d’une classe sociale mieux nantie.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of embourgeoisement
- embourgeoisements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce embourgeoisement?
- /ɑ̃.buʁ.ʒwaz.mɑ̃/
- \ɑ̃.buʁ.ʒwaz.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to embourgeoisement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is embourgeoisement in French?
embourgeoisement appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).