proletarian
Americanadjective
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pertaining or belonging to the proletariat.
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(in ancient Rome) belonging to the lowest or poorest class of the people.
noun
adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
- half-proletarian adjective
- nonproletarian adjective
- proletarianism noun
- proletarianly adverb
- proletarianness noun
Etymology
Origin of proletarian
Example Sentences
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Their devotion to Slowick meanwhile, hovers between that of a proletarian army in revolt against its oppressors and the legions of the undead commanded by figures of aristocratic despotism such as Dracula.
From Salon • Dec. 17, 2022
The party declared him a “great proletarian revolutionary” and “long-tested Communist fighter.”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2022
The experience, and her later workshop jobs, instilled in her a proletarian ethos very different from the aesthetic high-mindedness taught in England’s art schools.
From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2022
The social critic Mike Davis once called these “stealth houses” that hide their “luxurious qualities with proletarian or gangster facades.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2022
I could drift along like this, in some dreary proletarian idyll, except for two things.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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