Definitions for proletariat

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proletariat pro·le·tar·i·at

Spelling: [proh-li-tair-ee-uh t]

IPA: /ˌproʊ lɪˈtɛər i ət/

Proletariat is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 707 anagrams from letters in proletariat (aaeiloprrtt).

Definitions for proletariat

noun

1. the class of wage earners, especially those who earn their living by manual labor or who are dependent for support on daily or casual employment; the working class.
2. (in Marxist theory) the class of workers, especially industrial wage earners, who do not possess capital or property and must sell their labor to survive.
3. the lowest or poorest class of people, possessing no property, especially in ancient Rome.

Origin of proletariat

1850-55; French prolétariat; see proletary, -ate³

Examples for proletariat

Many Socialist Jews were anti-Zionist because they believed the proletariat should unite across religious and ethnic lines.

Am I going to motor down to hear the protests of the proletariat to-night?

While Bolshevism was a dictatorship of the proletariat, Nazism was a dictatorship with a voting consensus behind it.

This is a distinct phase of the struggle of the proletariat everywhere.

They will exhaust themselves struggling against their proletariat.

At the height of the Soviet Union, the proletariat universally understood everything their government said was a work of fiction.

In a post on his blog, Sprouse claims that he has become a member of the proletariat to feed his video game addiction.

Ultimately, though, what saved the Okies was not proletariat revolution but another world war.

First of all it compels the proletariat to live in the most disgusting promiscuity.

I thought the proletariat would have won, and you say it is all different.