pro|le|tar|i|at

pro|le|tar|i|at
pro|le|tar|i|at «PROH luh TAIR ee uht», noun.
1. the lowest class in economic and social status. The proletariat includes unskilled laborers, casual laborers, and tramps. »

The West has faced the task of absorbing its proletariat…and of giving it the feeling of fully belonging (Saturday Review).

2. the laboring class in Europe, especially as contrasted by the socialists formerly with slaves and serfs, and now with the middle class: »

the dictatorship of the proletariat (Karl Marx).

3. the proletaries in ancient Rome.
╂[< French prolétariat < Latin prōlētārius proletarian + French -at -ate3]

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  • pro´le|tar´i|an|ly — pro|le|tar|i|an «PROH luh TAIR ee uhn», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. of or belonging to the proletariat: »... irreverent proletarian humor (Newsweek). 2. of or belonging to the proletary of ancient Rome. 3. Obsolete. low; vulgar. –n. a person… …   Useful english dictionary

  • pro|le|tar|i|an — «PROH luh TAIR ee uhn», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. of or belonging to the proletariat: »... irreverent proletarian humor (Newsweek). 2. of or belonging to the proletary of ancient Rome. 3. Obsolete. low; vulgar. –n. a person belonging to the… …   Useful english dictionary

  • pro|le|tar|y — «PROH luh TEHR ee», noun, plural tar|ies. adjective. –n. a person of the poorest class in ancient Rome, regarded as contributing nothing but children to the state. –adj. belonging to the lowest or poorest class. ╂[< Latin prōlētārius; see etym …   Useful english dictionary

  • pro|le|tar|i|an|ism — «PROH luh TAIR ee uh NIHZ uhm», noun. the condition of being proletarian: »They had overturned feudalism, and now they had created proletarianism (John Rae) …   Useful english dictionary

  • pro|le|tar|i|an|i|za|tion — «PROH luh TAIR ee uh nuh ZAY shuhn», noun. the act or process of proletarianizing: »the “petty bourgeoisie” struggling against proletarianization (Manchester Guardian Weekly) …   Useful english dictionary

  • pro|le|tar|i|an|ize — «PROH luh TAIR ee uh nyz», transitive verb, ized, iz|ing. to make a proletarian of; cause to become proletarian: »In addition, there is the dual educational objective of intellectualizing the proletariat and proletarianizing the intellectuals… …   Useful english dictionary

  • pro|le|tar|i|ate — «PROH luh TAIR ee iht», noun. = proletariat. (Cf. ↑proletariat) …   Useful english dictionary

  • pro·le·tar·i·an — /ˌproʊləˈterijən/ noun, pl ans [count] : a person who has low social status : a member of the working class proletarian adj He was proud of his proletarian origins. a proletarian novel [=a novel about working class people] …   Useful english dictionary

  • pro·le·tar·i·at — /ˌproʊləˈterijət/ noun the proletariat : the lowest social or economic class of a community; especially : the working class a member of the proletariat …   Useful english dictionary

  • lum|pen|pro|le|tar|i|at — «LUM puhn PROH luh TAIR ee uht», noun. the section of the proletariat that lacks class consciousness: »These are not the real working class. These are the lumpenproletariat, tainted by petty bourgeois ideology (New Yorker). ╂[< German… …   Useful english dictionary

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