communist Definition
com·mu·nist (--nist)
noun
- an advocate or supporter of communism
- a member of a Communist Party
- loosely a Communard
- loosely anyone advocating ideas thought of as being leftist or subversive
Etymology: Fr communiste
adjective
- of, characteristic of, or like communism or communists
- advocating or supporting communism
- of or having to do with a Communist Party
communist Related Forms
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communist
n. [Often capital C]
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communist Usage Examples
Converse of object
- strike: Thousands of lecturers set to strike Czech government bans communists Cripes!
- lead: There followed more show ' trials ' of leading Communists as a means for expanding the new terror.
- become: Castro's views now became more communist and Cuba fell under soviet influence.
Adjective modifier
- 'official: Like the thoroughly discredited 'official communist ' PCF, these establishment parties of the left are clearly no answer for workers.
- Czech: Thousands of lecturers set to strike Czech government bans communists Cripes!
- Cuban: A: No, just Cuban Communists are bad.
- suspected: He spoke up against America's persecution of suspected communists.
- dissident: They were to exploit in brilliant fashion this desire to return home in order to arrest dissident Communists.
- Vietnamese: At any rate, Action Committees were created by the Vietnamese Communists for some years.
Modifies a noun
- bloc: In the old Communist bloc, LPG has been enthusiastically taken up in Poland.
- dictatorship: The Royal Palace Square was the scene of riots in 1989, which finally led to the collapse of the communist dictatorship.
- insurgency: During the communist insurgency of the fifties the infamous ' bamboo trail ' ran through the forest of Belum.
- regime: With the fall of the communist regime in 1990?
- takeover: In this speech Truman promised help to any country fighting a Communist takeover.
- ideology: Unlike most of Marx's work, it was an accessible account of communist ideology.
Modifying Another Word
formerly: She would be the first woman to lead Germany and the first person from the formerly communist east to hold the job.
Noun used with modifier
- ruling: The first elections since 1975 were held during 1989, although all candidates had to be approved by the ruling communist party.
- ban: Thousands of lecturers set to strike Czech government bans communists Cripes!
- government: Thousands of lecturers set to strike Czech government bans communists Cripes!
- post: United States A new Revolution in Russia, an examination of History Resources in the post communist Russian education system.
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