- an advocate or supporter of socialism
- [S-] a member of a Socialist Party
- of or like socialism or socialists
- advocating or supporting socialism
- [S-] of or having to do with a Socialist Party
Also so·cial·is′tic
adjective
- The definition of socialist is something related to or someone in support of socialism.
An example of socialist is the ideal of a sharing society that created Social Security.
- The definition of a socialist is a person who supports socialism, or is a member of the Socialist party.
An example of a socialist is Albert Einstein, the scientist.
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socialist
noun
- An advocate of socialism.
- often Socialist A member of a political party or group that advocates socialism.
adjective
- Of, promoting, or practicing socialism.
- Socialist Of, belonging to, or constituting a socialist party or political group.
Related Forms:
- so′cial·is′tic
adjective
- so′cial·is′ti·cal·ly
adverb
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Adjective
(comparative more socialist, superlative most socialist)
- Of, promoting, practicing, or characteristic of socialism.
Adjective
(not comparable)
- Of, belonging to, or constituting a party or political group that advocates socialism.
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Sentence Examples
- Her earliest political activities in her student days were connected with the Socialist movement in the country of her birth, but about 1895 she migrated to Germany.
- After the outbreak of the revolution of 1848 he was elected to the Constituent Assembly, and in 1849 to the Legislative Assembly, but his speeches on behalf of the extreme socialist wing were of so abstract and mystical a character that they had no effect.
- From this time his relations with the government were less friendly, and in 1878 he brought about the rejection of the first Socialist Bill.
- He attached himself to the "possibilist" group of the socialist party, the section opposed to the root-and-branch measures of Jules Guesde.
- He was chief of the Socialist left, which then mustered sixty members, and edited until 1896 their organ in the press, La Petite Republique.
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WORDS NEAR socialist IN THE DICTIONARY
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