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communist Definition

com·mu·nist (--nist)

noun

  1. an advocate or supporter of communism
    1. a member of a Communist Party
    2. loosely a Communard
  3. loosely anyone advocating ideas thought of as being leftist or subversive

Etymology: Fr communiste

adjective

  1. of, characteristic of, or like communism or communists
  2. advocating or supporting communism
  3. of or having to do with a Communist Party

communist Related Forms

com′·mu·nis′·tic adjective com′·mu·nis′·ti·cally adverb

communist Synonyms

communist

n. [Often capital C]

card-carrying communist, Party member, comrade, fellow traveler, member of the Communist Party, C.P. member, apparatchik, sympathizer, Marxist, Socialist, Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Trotskyite, Leninist, Stalinist, Maoist, Viet Cong, Castroite, Soviet, revisionist, comunista (Spanish), Commie*, Red*, com-symp*, pinko*, Bolshie*; see also agitator, radical.

Antonyms fascist, conservative*, capitalist.

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.