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Definition: Communist |
CommunistAdjective1. Relating to or marked by communism; "Communist Party"; "communist governments"; "communistic propaganda". Noun1. A member of the communist party. 2. A socialist who advocates communism. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "communist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
Etymology: Communist \Com"mu*nist\, noun. [French expression communiste.]. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| COM | English | Communist and Allies Group | Politics & International Affaires |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: CommunistSynonyms: communistic (adj), commie (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disobedience | Insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur; seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue; Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade; ringleader. |
Evil doer | Firebrand, incendiary, fire bug, pyromaniac; anarchist, communist, terrorist. |
Government | Party; Democratic Party, Republican Party, Socialist Party, Communist Party; Federalist Party, Bull Moose Party, Abolitionist Party; Christian Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party; National Socialist Worker's Party, Nazi Party; Liberal Party, Labor Party, Conservative Party. |
Participation | Communist, socialist. |
Philanthropy | Philanthropist, endaemonist, utilitarian, Benthamite, socialist, communist, cosmopolite, citizen of the world, amicus humani generis; knight errant; patriot. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You goddamned communist heathen, you had best sound off that you love the Virgin Mary, or I'm gonna stomp your guts out (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr) My Homer is not a Communist he may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a Communist but he is not a porn star (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) When he's 18 he can make his mind up whether he wants to be a capitalist or a rich communist. (One, Two, Three; writing credit: Ferenc Molnár; Billy Wilder) Some other communist said that (Week End; writing credit: Jean-Luc Godard) How did some slip of a girly boy from communist East Berlin become the internationally ignored song stylist barely standing before you (Hedwig and the Angry Inch; writing credit: John Cameron Mitchell; Stephen Trask) | |
Lyrics | Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc (We Didn't Start The Fire; performing artist: Billy Joel) My friend the communist (Soak Up the Sun; performing artist: SHERYL CROW) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Rear Admiral Thomas G.W. Stettle, USN, (center) with a Chinese Communist general and his companions, during the cruiser's operations in Chinese waters, circa September-November 1945. Note anchor chain. Credit: NAVY. |  | U.N. Command Delegates Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, USN (left), and Major General William K. Harrison, U.S. Army, walk to their helicopter after a conference session at Panmunjom, 7 May 1952. This was the date that Communist prisoners of war at Koje-do captured Brigadier General Francis Dodd, the POW camp commandant. MGen. Harrison relieved VAdm. Joy as Senior Delegate on 22 May 1952. Credit: NAVY. |
 | A Communist barricade. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Consolidating the communist world. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Drive begins to bar U.S. Communist party from state ballots. (News item) Scientists still unable to explain elephants' pathological dread of mice (News item). Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Six top-ranking members of the American Communist party in Federal Court, New York City, front, left to right: Eugene Dennis, William Z. Foster, Benjamin Davis. Rear, left to right: John Williamson, Henry Winston, and Jacob Stachel. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Composite of head-and-shoulders portraits of V.M. Molotov, Joseph Stalin, L.M. Kaganovich, and eight other officials of the Communist party, including Nikita Khruschev. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Detroit, Michigan. Bob Minor addressing the Michigan Communist party. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Long live the Third Communist International! = Evviva il Terza Internazionale Communista!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Damian Garcia, member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, murdered Tuesday, April 22, 1980 by police agents in Los Angeles. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Karl Marx | Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose, but their chains. .Workers of the world unite! |
Mao Tse-tung | Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." |
President Harry S. Truman | People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | They have a world to win. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | In Italy the Communist Party is seriously hampered by having to support the Communist-trained Marshal Tito's claims to former Italian territory at the head of the Adriatic. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Major decisions are still made by key leaders of the Chinese Communist party. (references) | |
This holds true for many ethnic Tibetan government officials and Communist Party members. (references) | ||
A 1950's ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court outlawed a neo-Nazi and a Communist party. (references) | ||
Children | Philippines | Policy guidelines of the Communist Party/National Democratic Front state that minors may serve in noncombat positions. (references) |
Bulgaria | Policies and public attitudes prevalent during the Communist era, which separated mentally and physically disabled persons, including very young children from the rest of society, have persisted. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Cuba | In 1991 the Government allowed religious adherents to join the Communist Party. (references) |
Economic History | North Korea | Type: Highly centralized communist state. (references) |
Vietnam | Type: Communist Party-dominated constitutional republic. (references) | |
Laos | Months after these communist victories, the Pathet Lao entered Vientiane. (references) | |
Human Rights | Romania | The law permits citizens access to secret police files kept by the Communist government. (references) |
Slovak Republic | The Department also prepared draft legislation to assist victims of the communist regime. (references) | |
Bangladesh | On January 20, a bomb killed four persons during a rally held by the Communist Party of Bangladesh. (references) | |
Minorities | Moldova | After coming to power in February, the new Communist majority in Parliament amended several laws that strengthened the use of Russian without making it an official language. (references) |
China | In Atush, Akqi, and Akto counties, 24 persons were sentenced publicly, including 2 sentenced to death, for "sabotaging public order and the social stability." Three Uighurs were sentenced in April for being members of the "1999 9th August disturbances" which actually was a demonstration in front of the local Communist party building to protest the arrest of an imam. (references) | |
Political Economy | CZECH REPUBLIC | Union membership, compulsory under the Communist regime, has declined since 1990. (references) |
Political Rights | Moldova | On March 20, Communist Deputy Eugenia Ostapciuc became Speaker of Parliament. (references) |
Cuba | A small minority of candidates did not belong formally to the Communist Party. (references) | |
Cuba | The Constitution proscribes any political organization other than the Communist Party. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Cuba | The CTC is a member of the Communist, formerly Soviet-dominated World Federation of Trade Unions. (references) |
Bolivia | The COB is an affiliate of the communist, formerly Soviet-dominated, World Federation of Trade Unions. (references) | |
China | The ACFTU chairman is a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Many of the communist movement's useful idiots still exist in the press. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | The Communist economic offensive is under way. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | We are there, first, because a friendly nation has asked us for help against the Communist aggression. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | In Korea and again in Vietnam, the United States furnished most of the money, most of the arms, and most of the men to help the people of those countries defend their freedom against Communist aggression. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Our relations with the Communist countries are a basic factor of the world environment. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Had that nuclear monopoly been in the hands of the Communist world, the map of Europe--indeed, the world--would look very different today. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | A year ago in Poland, Lech Walesa declared he was ready to open a dialogue with the Communist rulers of that country. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Communist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 70.40% of the time. "Communist" is used about 2,575 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 70.4% | 1,813 | 4,667 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 29.36% | 756 | 9,050 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.23% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,575 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "communist": communist China ♦ communist economy ♦ communist manifesto ♦ communist party ♦ communist party line. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "communist": communist-backed, communist-bloc, communist-controlled, communist-dominated, communist-homosexual, communist-hunter, communist-inclined, communist-influenced, communist-inspired, communist-installed, communist-jewish, communist-labourites, communist-led, communist-occupied, communist-orchestrated, communist-orientated, communist-oriented, communist-ruled, communist-socialist, communist-sponsored, communist-starred, communist-supported, communist-trained. | |
Ending with "communist": all-communist, anti-communist, euro-communist, ex-communist, neo-communist, non-communist, post-communist, pre-communist, pro-communist, soviet-communist. | |
Containing "communist": judeo-masonic-communist-occult. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "communist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | komunist (communistic). (various references) | |
Arabic | الشيوعي (bolshevik), شيوعي (communal, communistic, red). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | комунистически (communistic, red), комунист. (various references) | |
Chinese | 共" , 共产. (various references) | |
Czech | komunistický (communistic), komunista (leveller). (various references) | |
Danish | COM (Communist and Allies Group), oestblok (Communist-bloc countries, Eastern bloc countries), gruppen af kommunister og beslaegtede (Communist and Allies Group). (various references) | |
Dutch | communist. (various references) | |
Esperanto | komunisto. (various references) | |
Farsi | مربوطبه کمونیسم , طرفدارمرام اشتراکی . (various references) | |
Finnish | kommunistinen, kommunisti. (various references) | |
French | communiste (communistic). (various references) | |
Frisian | kommunist. (various references) | |
German | Kommunist. (various references) | |
Greek | κομμουνιστικόσ, κομμουνιστής, κομουνιστήσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | קומו יסט (red). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kommunista (communistic, pinko, red). (various references) | |
Indonesian | komunis. (various references) | |
Italian | comunista. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | コミュニケーション科学基礎 "究所 (choral, collaboration, collaborative, collaborator, collage, collagen, collie, column, columnist, COM, COMECON, comedian, comedy, comet, Cominform, comment, commentator, comment-out, committee, common, common carrier, common language, common sense, Commonwealth Day, communicate, Communication Science Laboratories, communications intelligence, communications satellite, communicator, communism, Communist Information Bureau, community, community care, community center, community college, community media, community paper, community school, community sports, computer output microfilm system, comsat, corrida, corundum, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, Komintern, Komsomol, Korea, operator in a telemarketing business, stand-alone feature article framed by a box). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | コミュニスト . (various references) | |
Korean | 공산주의자. (various references) | |
Manx | cummynagh. (various references) | |
Papiamen | komunista. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ommunistcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | comunista (bolshevik, communistic). (various references) | |
Romanian | comunist. (various references) | |
Russian | коммунистический (communistic), коммунист коммунистический, коммунист (commie). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | komunistički (communistic), komunista. (various references) | |
Spanish | comunista (communistic). (various references) | |
Swedish | kommunistisk (communistic), kommunist-, kommunist. (various references) | |
Turkish | komünist (commie, communistic). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kommunist (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | комуністичний, комуніст. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người cộng sản. (various references) | |
Welsh | comiwnyddol, comiwnydd. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "communist": communistic, communistically, communists. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "communist": anticommunist, noncommunist. (additional references) | |
Words containing "communist": anticommunists, noncommunists. (additional references) | |
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"Communist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: commandist, commisit, commmunist, commonise, commonish, commorits, communi, communis, Communista, comturist, comuni, comunic, comunist, Kommunis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "communist" (pronounced kÄ"myunust) |
| 9 | k Ä" m y u n u s t | anticommunist. |
| 6 | -y u n u s t | unionist. |
| 5 | -u n u s t | agonist, antagonist, arsonist, accompanist, abolitionist, abortionist, botanist, chauvinist, colonist, conservationist, contortionist, illusionist, impressionist, determinist, exhibitionist, expressionist, feminist, interventionist, isolationist, misogynist, nutritionist, obstructionist, organist, preservationist, protagonist, protectionist, receptionist, reservationist, revolutionist, secessionist, segregationist. |
| 4 | -n u s t | balloonist, cartoonist, cleanest, columnist, hygienist, dishonest, earnest, finest, funnest, greenest, gymnast, harnessed, honest, internist, keenest, leanest, machinist, meanest, modernist, noncommunist, opportunist, pianist, soonest, sternest, tannest, thinnest, violinist, witnessed. |
| 3 | -u s t | agriculturalist, agronomist, alarmist, alchemist, allergist, amethyst, amorist, analyst, anarchist, anatomist, anesthesiologist, anesthetist, angriest, animist, anthropologist, apologist, apprenticed, aquarist, archaeologist, archivist, absolutist, ablest, activist, artist, atheist, August, ballast, barest, behaviorist, biased, bicyclist, biggest, biochemist, biologist, bitterest, blackest, bleakest, bloodiest, bluest, bluntest, boldest, bravest, breakfast, briefest, brightest, broadest, busiest, buttressed, calloused, canoeist, canvassed, capitalist, cardiologist, caricaturist, catalyst, cellist, cheapest, choicest, clarinetist, classicist, closest, coldest, colonialist, conversationalist, coolest, cornettist, craziest, creamiest, criminologist, cruelest, cultist, cyclist, darkest, idealist, ideologist, immunologist, imperialist, deadliest, dearest, deepest, deforest, deist, densest, dentist, dermatologist, direst, dirtiest, disinterest, driest, druggist, dullest, dumbest, earliest, easiest, ecologist, economist, editorialist, eldest, elitist, embarrassed, empiricist, encompassed, encyclopedist, endocrinologist, entomologist, environmentalist, epidemiologist, ethicist, ethnomusicologist, exorcist, extremist, faintest, fairest, fanciest, farthest, fascist, fastest, fattest, federalist, fetishist, fewest, fiercest, finalist, firmest, fittest, flimsiest, florist, focused, focussed, foggiest, fondest, forest, formalist, freest, freshest, friendliest, fullest, fundamentalist, funniest, furthest, generalist, geneticist, gentlest, geologist, gerontologist, goldest, grandest, gravest, grayest, greatest, greediest, grimaced, grimmest, grooviest, guitarist, gynecologist, happiest, hardest, harshest, harvest, healthiest, heaviest, heftiest, herbalist, highest, hippest, hobbyist, holiest, hottest, hugest, humblest, humorist, individualist, industrialist, institutionalist, instrumentalist, interest, internationalist, jaundiced, journalist, juiciest, junkiest, kindest, kremlinologist, largest, latest, laziest, leftist, librettist, lightest, likeliest, linguist, littlest, liveliest, lobbyist, locust, longest, loudest, lowest, loyalist, luckiest, lyricist, manicurist, mannerist, masochist, materialist, medalist, mercantilist, merest, meteorologist, methodist, microbiologist, mightiest, mildest, mineralogist, modest, monopolist, motorcyclist, motorist, musicologist, narrowest, nastiest, nationalist, naturalist, nearest, neatest, neediest, neurologist, neuroscientist, neutralist, newest, noblest, noisiest, nonconformist, noninterest, noticed, novelist, oboist, oddest, oldest, oncologist, ophthalmologist, orthodontist, orthopedist, pacifist, paleontologist, palest, panelist, pathologist, pessimist, pharmacist, philanthropist, photojournalist, physiologist, polemicist, poorest, populist, prefaced, prejudiced, premised, prettiest, priciest, promised, propagandist, proudest, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychologist, psychotherapist, purchased, purest, quickest, quietest, quietist, racist, radiologist, rainforest, rainiest, rapist, rarest, reddest, refocused, reforest, remotest, repurchased, reservist, resurfaced, rheumatologist, richest, rightist, riskiest, ritziest, roughest, rudest, saddest, sadist, safest, satirist, savviest, scariest, scientist, secularist, seismologist, semifinalist, separatist, serologist, serviced, severest, sexiest, shakiest, sharpest, shortest, showiest, shrewdest, sickest, silliest, simplest, skimpiest, skinniest, sleekest, slickest, slightest, slimmest, sloppiest, slowest, smallest, smartest, smoggiest, smoothest, socialist, sociologist, softest, soundest, specialist, spiritualist, stablest, staunchest, steepest, stickiest, stiffest, stormiest, strangest, strategist, strictest, strongest, stupidest, supremacist, surest, surfaced, survivalist, sweetest, swiftest, tallest, technologist, televangelist, tempest, terraced, theorist, therapist, thickest, thorniest, tightest, tiniest, toniest, toughest, tourist, toxicologist, traditionalist, trendiest, trickiest, truest, ugliest, ultranationalist, unbiased, unfocused, unkindest, unnoticed, urologist, violist, virologist, vocalist, warmest, weakest, wealthiest, weirdest, wettest, whitest, widest, wildest, wisest, worthiest, yellowest, youngest, zaniest, zoologist. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-m-m-n-o-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: miscount. | |
-2 letters: commits, coniums, cummins, suction. | |
-3 letters: coitus, commit, conium, counts, cousin, cumins, cummin, custom, cutins, inmost, miscut, monism, monist, mounts, mucins, muonic, mutism, mutons, nomism, osmium, ostium, outsin, sitcom, summit, summon, tocsin, tonics, tunics. | |
-4 letters: cions, coins, conus, count, cumin, cutin, cutis, icons, ictus, incus, mints, minus, moist, momus, mount, mucin, munis, muons. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-m-m-n-o-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: comminutes, communists. | |
+2 letters: communalist, communistic, communities. | |
+3 letters: comminutions, communalists, communicants, communicates, commutations, consummating, consummation, consummative, miscomputing, noncommunist, subcommunity. | |
+4 letters: anticommunism, anticommunist, communalities, communicatees, communicators, consummations, immunochemist, medicamentous, minicomputers, noncommunists, unsymptomatic. | |
+5 letters: anticommunisms, anticommunists, commensuration, communications, communitarians, communizations, decamethoniums, excommunicates, immunochemists, immunogenetics, incommensurate, miscomputation, mummifications, noncommunities, somnambulistic, subcommunities. | |
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