equalitarian
/ɪˈkwɒl.ɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/US/ɪˈkwɑ.lɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
equalitarian adjective: characterized by social equality and equal rights for all people.
Adjective
equalitarian (comparative more equalitarian, superlative most equalitarian)
- Characterized by social equality and equal rights for all people.
- There was more than one way, however, in which the principles embodied in the cosmological conception of the Chain of Being could be used as weapons against social discontent and especially against all equalitarian movements.1936, A. O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea, Harvard University Press, page 205
- Later it became the fashion to decry the militias, and therefore to pretend that the faults which were due to lack of training and weapons were the result of the equalitarian system. Actually, a newly raised draft of militia was an undisciplined mob not because the officers called the privates...1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- egalitarian
Noun
equalitarian (plural equalitarians)
- A person who accepts or promotes the view of equalitarianism.
- Synonyms:
- egalitarian
Examples of equalitarian in a sentence
- Later it became the fashion to decry the militias, and therefore to pretend that the faults which were due to lack of training and weapons were the result of the equalitarian system.1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
- In the increasingly equalitarian Britain of the postwar years, Britain's monarchy found itself subject to a questioning, scarcely articulated, of the utility of an expensive royal household.1957 October 21, “The Queen's Husband”, in Time:
Synonyms of equalitarian
Forms of equalitarian
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more equalitarian |
| superlative | most equalitarian |
| Noun | |
| plural | equalitarians |
Origin of equalitarian
Coined around 1800 from equality + -arian.
Words formed from equalitarian
Words that rhyme with equalitarian
- Darien
- barbarian
- Aryan
- libertarian
- Arian
- documentarian
- humanitarian
- sabbatarian
- sectarian
- unitarian
- vegetarian
- -arian
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- agrarian
- Bulgarian
- caesarian
- catenarian
- librarian
- lunarian
- Marian
- planetarian
- Ripuarian
- Solarian
- trinitarian
- alphabetarian
- antiauthoritarian
- aquarian
- Bolivarian
- communitarian
- contrarian
- corpuscularian
- denarian
- flexitarian
- futilitarian
- infirmarian
- Kaffrarian
- necessitarian
- nonsectarian
- paraovarian
- parian
- pollotarian
- proprietarian
- quinarian
- sacramentarian
- sanitarian
- semivegetarian
- Tartarean
- Tartarian
- Tocharian
- tricenarian
- valetudinarian
- vestiarian
- acarian
- actiniarian
- actuarian
- aerarian
- alcyonarian
- altitudinarian
- antelapsarian
- antiacarian
- antiegalitarian
Questions about equalitarian
- What does equalitarian mean?
- Equalitarian means characterized by social equality and equal rights for all people.
- How do you use equalitarian in a sentence?
- Later it became the fashion to decry the militias, and therefore to pretend that the faults which were due to lack of training and weapons were the result of the equalitarian system.
- What part of speech is equalitarian?
- Equalitarian can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce equalitarian?
- Equalitarian is pronounced /ɪˈkwɒl.ɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/ (UK).
Words near equalitarian in the dictionary
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