proletarian
UK/ˌpɹəʊ.lɪˈtɛəɹi.ən//ˌpɹoʊ.lɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
proletarian adjective: of or relating to the proletariat.
Adjective
proletarian (comparative more proletarian, superlative most proletarian)
- Of or relating to the proletariat.
- While the May 30th Movement is usually perceived by historians as essentially a Communist-instigated urban proletarian movement, in the suburban countryside in Xihua county the antiforeign struggle attracted a sizable number of peasants. Surprisingly, the Xihua boycott in Youth Village (qingnian...1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 47
Noun
proletarian (plural proletarians)
- A member of the proletariat.
- Synonyms:
- prole
proletarian meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Pashto
proletarian in Tamil
- member of the proletariat
- பாட்டாளிகள் pāṭṭāḷikaḷ
proletarian in Urdu
- غریب مزدور, پرولتاری
proletarian in Malayalam
- plebeian, working-class, cloth-cap
- അദ്ധ്വാനിക്കുന്ന ജനവിഭാഗത്ത സംബന്ധിച്ച, തൊഴിലാളിവർഗ്ഗത്തിൽ പെട്ട, അദ്ധ്വാനവർഗ്ഗത്തിൽപെട്ട, ജോലിചെയ്തു ഉപജീവനംതേടുന്ന വിഭാഗമായ, കൂലിവേലക്കാരായ, സാധാരണജനതയെ സംബന്ധിച്ച
- worker, working-class person, plebeian
- അദ്ധ്വാനിക്കുന്ന ജനവിഭാഗത്തിൽ പെട്ടയാൾ, തൊഴിലാളി, കർമ്മാജീവൻ, തൊഴിലാളിവർഗ്ഗത്തിൽ പെട്ടയാൾ, കൂലിവേലക്കാരൻ, ഹീനസാമുദായികവിഭാഗത്തിൽ ഉൾപ്പെട്ടവൻ
proletarian in Pashto
- member of the proletariat
- پرولېټر proleṭā́r, پرولېتار proletā́r
More languagesFewer languages
- proletarian in Arabic
- بْرُولِيتَارِيّ broletāriyy, بْرُولِيتَارِيَّة broletāriyya
- proletarian in Malay
- proletarian, proletariat, murba
- proletarian in Indonesian
- proletar
- proletarian in Thai
- กรรมาชีพ gam-maa-chîip
- proletarian in Vietnamese
- vô sản, người vô sản
Examples of proletarian in a sentence
- They embodied the profound proletarian feelings of the people of all nationalities for Chairman Mao.
- In the Communist view all proletarians are good men and all proprietarians are bad men.
- What withers away after this revolution is the proletarian state or semi-state.
Synonyms of proletarian
Forms of proletarian
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more proletarian |
| superlative | most proletarian |
| Noun | |
| plural | proletarians |
Origin of proletarian
From Latin proletarius (“a man whose only wealth is his offspring, or whose sole service to the state is as father”), from proles (“offspring, posterity”).
Words formed from proletarian
Phrases with proletarian
Words that rhyme with proletarian
- Darien
- barbarian
- Aryan
- libertarian
- Arian
- documentarian
- humanitarian
- sabbatarian
- sectarian
- unitarian
- vegetarian
- -arian
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- 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 proletarian
- What does proletarian mean?
- Proletarian means of or relating to the proletariat.
- What is proletarian in Tamil?
- Proletarian in Tamil is பாட்டாளிகள் (pāṭṭāḷikaḷ). See Proletarian meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is proletarian?
- Proletarian can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce proletarian?
- Proletarian is pronounced /ˌpɹəʊ.lɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/ (UK).
Words near proletarian in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: proletarian (page history and authors); proletarian (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); proletarian (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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