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Definition: Proletarian |
ProletarianAdjective1. The lowest class of citizens of ancient Rome who had no property. 2. Belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat. Noun1. A member of the working class (not necessarily employed); "workers of the world--unite!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "proletarian" was first used: 1663. (references) |
Etymology: Proletarian \Prol`e*ta"ri*an\, adjective. [Latin expression proletarius. See Proletary.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: ProletarianSynonyms: propertyless (adj), prole (n), worker (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: patrician (adj), plebeian (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Plebeian, proletarian; of low parentage, of low origin, of low extraction, of mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction; lowborn, baseborn, earthborn; mushroom, dunghill, risen from the ranks; unknown to fame, obscure, untitled. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Proletarian |
| English words defined with "proletarian": teddy boys. (references) |
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 | Our great cultural revolution of the proletarian class is shaking the whole world ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Krazy Kat. Jose Chigueno, known to Angles & Saxons as Joe Stork, "purveyor of progeny to prince & proletarian", on his way from the "Enchanted Mesa" ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Raise high the great banner of Chairman Mao, follow through to the end the proletarian revolution. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Proletarian revolutionaries unite under the great red banner of the thoughts of Mao Tse-tung. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Friedrich Engels | What the proletarian needs, he can obtain only from the bourgeoisie, which is protected in its monopoly by the power of the State. . . |
Gustave Flaubert | The whole dream of democracy is to elevate the proletarian to the level of the imbecility of the bourgeois. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The aristocracy, in order to rally the people to them, waved the proletarian alms-bag in front for a banner. (reference) |
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Economic History | China | Dissatisfied with China's new direction and his own reduced authority, Party Chairman Mao launched a massive political attack on Liu, Deng, and other pragmatists in the spring of 1966. The new movement, the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution," was unprecedented in communist history. (references) |
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| "Proletarian" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Proletarian" is used about 110 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) | 90.91% | 100 | 32,668 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.09% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 110 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "proletarian": non-proletarian, peasant-proletarian, rural-proletarian, semi-proletarian. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
proletarian | 4 |
cultural great proletarian revolution | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "proletarian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | proletar (prole, proletary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | البروليتاري أفراد من طبقة العمال, بروليتاري. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пролетарски, пролетарий (proletary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 产者. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | proletářský, proletář. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | proletariër. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | proleto, proletario. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کارگری , کارگر (Effective, Employee, Labor, Laborer, Operative, Worker, Workingman, Workman, Workpeople), وابسته بکارگر, عضوطبقه کارگر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | prolétaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Proletarier. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προλετάριοσ (prole), εργατικόσ (diligent, hard working, industrious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פרוליטר. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | proletár (bronze wing, proletary), prletár. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | proletar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | proletario. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 無"者 , プロペラ船 (air propeller boat, professional wrestling, project manager, proletariat, promenade, Prometheus, promethium, prominence, promote, promoter, promotion, promotion video, proportion, proposal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | プロレタリア , むさ"しゃ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 무산자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | obbree (agent, employee;practical, factory hand, labourer, worker, working, working man, workman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oletarianpray proletário. (various references) proletar. (various references) пролетарский, пролетарий (prole, proletary). (various references) proleterski (proletary), proleter. (various references) proletario (prole). (various references) proletär. (various references) proleter (prole), işçi (employee, laborer, labourer, man, oar, prole, soldier, worker, workingman, workman), emekçi (laborer, labourer, prole, worker, workingman). (various references) proletor (r). (various references) пролетарський, пролетар. (various references) vô sản (proletary), người vô sản (proletary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | proletarius, vernaculi, vernaculis, vernaculos, vernaculus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "proletarian": proletarianise, proletarianised, proletarianises, proletarianising, proletarianization, proletarianizations, proletarianize, proletarianized, proletarianizes, proletarianizing, proletarians. (additional references) | |
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"Proletarian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Parietaria, prolatarian, proletaires, proletaria, proletarial, proletartian, prolitarian. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "proletarian" (pronounced prō'lute"rēun) |
| 8 | -l u t e" r ē u n | egalitarian, totalitarian, utilitarian. |
| 7 | -u t e" r ē u n | authoritarian, humanitarian, majoritarian, unitarian, vegetarian. |
| 6 | -t e" r ē u n | libertarian, nonsectarian, parliamentarian, sectarian. |
| 5 | -e" r ē u n | agrarian, barbarian, carrion, centenarian, Clarion, contrarian, disciplinarian, librarian, octogenarian, ovarian, planarian, seminarian, septuagenarian, veterinarian. |
| 4 | -r ē u n | centurion, criterion, Cyprian, equestrian, historian, hyperborean, pagurian, pedestrian, praetorian, presbyterian, salutatorian, valedictorian, valerian. |
| 3 | -ē u n | accordion, alien, amphibian, arcadian, bohemian, Campion, chameleon, champion, circadian, collodion, comedian, custodian, draconian, galleon, gorgonian, Guardian, halcyon, herculean, lesbian, mammalian, median, mediterranean, meridian, Napoleon, nickelodeon, oblivion, obsidian, Odeon, plutonian, scorpion, simian, subterranean, symbion, theologian, thespian, utopian. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-l-n-o-p-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: praetorial, praetorian, reparation. | |
-2 letters: alienator, perinatal, pretorian, raptorial, rationale. | |
-3 letters: aeration, airplane, anterior, antipole, antirape, arterial, atropine, interlap, notarial, oriental, palatine, paltrier, parental, parietal, parlante, paternal, patronal, pelorian, petiolar, portlier, prenatal, pretrain, pretrial, priorate, rational, relation, retailor, talapoin, terpinol, terrapin, trapline, triplane. | |
-4 letters: aeolian, aerator, aileron, airport, alation, alienor, apnoeal, apteral, apteria, areolar, atropin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-l-n-o-p-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: perorational, proletarians. | |
+2 letters: hyperrational, intrapersonal. | |
+3 letters: interparochial, perturbational, preoperational, proletarianise, proletarianize, repolarization. | |
+4 letters: inappropriately, interparoxysmal, intraperitoneal, malpractitioner, paranormalities, proletarianised, proletarianises, proletarianized, proletarianizes, repolarizations. | |
+5 letters: hyperrationality, interpretational, malpractitioners, proletarianising, proletarianizing, representational. | |
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