proletarian Definition
pro·le·tar·ian (prō′lə ter′ē ən)
adjective
of the proletariat
Etymology: < L proletarius, citizen of the lowest class (see proletary) + -an
noun
a member of the proletariat; worker
proletarian Synonyms
proletarian Usage Examples
Preposition: of
country: Here waits the first common task on which the proletarians of all countries must work together.
Adjective modifier
- rural: The result of any such policy, he warned, would be to degrade Mozambican peasant farmers to the status of landless rural proletarians.
- revolutionary: The genuine revolutionary proletarians in the USSR drew their strength not from the apparatus but from the activity of the revolutionary masses.
- class-conscious: The struggle chiefly centered abroad, among the section furthest removed from positive work and from the participation of class-conscious proletarians.
- European: For non-Europeans from imperially subjugated countries, the symbols of subordination were even more extensive than those applied to European proletarians.
- English: Blacks, Indians, Chinese, tattooed English proletarians.
Modifies a noun
- vanguard: The Soviet republic, like the world proletarian vanguard, will finally liberate itself from the bureaucratic octopus.
- internationalism: The reason given was that the foreign policy of Cuba is a policy of proletarian internationalism.
- dictatorship: The proletarian dictatorship may or may not free women.
- revolution: In the second article he speaks of the proletarian revolution, which can only mean in the Western Ukraine.
- bonapartism: Despite its earlier successes, proletarian Bonapartism did not solve the problems of society.
- revolutionist: Only on this basis can a serious proletarian revolutionist be educated.
Modifying Another Word
- truly: A whole series of parties are proving by their activity that a new, truly proletarian party can be built.
- not: Why, then, could not proletarian art be created in tens of years?
- purely: The living standard of this layer is often purely proletarian.
- overwhelmingly: In 1946 the party was, however, reported to be ' overwhelmingly proletarian in composition ' .
Preposition: in
country: In the U.S.S.R. 90 % of all the proletarians in the country are organized in trade unions.
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