proletarian
nounEtymology From Latin proletarius (“a man whose only wealth is his offspring, or whose sole service to the state is as father”), from proles (“offspring, posterity”).
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A member of the proletariat.
- Synonyms
- prole
proletarian
adjUK /ˌpɹəʊ.lɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/ · US /ˌpɹoʊ.lɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
Etymology From Latin proletarius (“a man whose only wealth is his offspring, or whose sole service to the state is as father”), from proles (“offspring, posterity”).
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Of or relating to the proletariat.
- While the May 30th Movement is usually perceived by historians as essentially a Communist-instigated urban proletarian movement, in the suburban countryside in Xihua county the antiforeign struggle attracted a sizable number of peasants. Surprisingly, the Xihua boycott in Youth Village (qingnian cun) was organized in the name of a peasant organization, the Central Plain Peasant Association (Zhongyuan nongmin xiehui).1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 47:
- Derived terms
- cybertarian, nonproletarian, non-proletarian, proletarian dictatorship, proletarian internationalism, proletarianise, proletarianize, proletarianism, proletarianly, proletarianness, protoproletarian