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Definitions: Marxist |
MarxistAdjective1. Following the ideas of Marx and Engels. Noun1. An advocate of Marxism. 2. Emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Marxist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1930. (references) |
Synonyms: MarxistSynonyms: bolshie (n), pinko (n), red (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Marxist |
| English words defined with "Marxist": bourgeois ♦ dogma ♦ Haldane ♦ J. B. S. Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane ♦ orientation ♦ predilection, preference ♦ Social Democratic Party. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Marxist" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (marxist), Romanian (marxian, marxist). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Last Marxist (1994) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Friedrich Engels | Just as Marx used to say about the French "Marxists" of the late `seventies: "All I know is that I am not a Marxist." |
Karl Marx | All I know is I'm not a Marxist. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Cuba | Education is free, but it is grounded in Marxist ideology. (references) |
Civil Liberties | India | The alleged assailants were state information officers, government employees owing allegiance to the Marxist government. (references) |
Economic History | Chile | In the 1920s, Marxist groups with strong popular support arose. (references) |
Human Rights | Turkey | Operations against Marxist TIKKO guerillas, mostly in the east, resulted in a number of reported deaths of alleged TIKKO operatives. (references) |
Political Economy | Finland | Despite its Marxist origin a hundred years ago, the modern SDP is supportive of the market economy and individual rights. (references) |
Ethiopia | The Government's Special Prosecutor's Office (SPO) continued to conduct the trials of persons accused of committing crimes under the Marxist regime (1974-91) of Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Marxist" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 86.52% of the time. "Marxist" is used about 659 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 86.52% | 570 | 11,057 |
| Noun (singular) | 13.18% | 87 | 35,390 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.3% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 659 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Marxist": marxist-based, marxist-dominated, marxist-existentialism, marxist-feminist, marxist-feminists, marxist-gramscian, marxist-hegelian, marxist-inclined, marxist-inflected, marxist-inspired, Marxist-leninism, Marxist-Leninist, marxist-leninist-maoist, Marxist-leninists, marxist-nationalist, marxist-oriented, marxist-structuralist, marxist-trotskyist. | |
Ending with "Marxist": anti-marxist, neo-marxist, non-marxist, philippines-marxist, post-marxist, quasi-marxist. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Arabic | مصدق الماركسية, مؤمن بالماركسية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | марксистки (marxian), марксист (marxian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 马克思主义者. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | marxista. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | marxiste. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | marxist. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μαρξιστήσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | marxista (marxian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | marxista (marxian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | マラリア蚊 (malaria mosquito, Marie, marihuana, marijuana, marimba, marina, marinade, marine, marine beef, marine blue, marine look, marine ranching, marine snow, marine tower, marionette, Marisat, mark, marriage counselor, Marx, Marxism, Mary, ultramarine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | マルキスト , マルキシスト . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 마르크스주의자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arxistmay marxismo. (various references) marxist (marxian). (various references) марксист марксистский. (various references) marksistički (marxian), marksista (marxian). (various references) marxista (marxian). (various references) marksist. (various references) marksistik (r). (various references) Mác-xít (marxian), người theo chủ nghĩa Mác (marxian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Marxist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: marxiste, Mirista. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-m-r-s-t-x" | |
-1 letter: mastix, matrix. | |
-2 letters: airts, amirs, astir, mairs, maist, marts, maxis, simar, sitar, smart, stair, stria, tamis, tarsi, taxis, trams, trims. | |
-3 letters: aims, airs, airt, aits, amir, amis, arms, arts, axis, mair, mars, mart, mast, mats, maxi, mirs, mist, mixt, rami, rams, rats, rias, rims, sari, sati, sima, smit, star, stir, tams, tars, taxi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-m-r-s-t-x" | |
+1 letter: matrixes. | |
+3 letters: admixtures, taximeters. | |
+4 letters: axisymmetry, externalism, mediatrixes, taxidermies, taxidermist, thermotaxis. | |
+5 letters: ambidextrous, approximates, axisymmetric, dominatrixes, expatriatism, exterminates, externalisms, extramusical, taxidermists. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 72 78 69 73 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01110010 01111000 01101001 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a r x i s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0072 0078 0069 0073 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47678490758586 |
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