Proletariat Synonyms

prōlĭ-târē-ĭt
A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. working-class
  2. the masses
  3. commonality
  4. commonalty
  5. commoners
  6. labor
  7. masses
  8. plebs
  9. the rank and file
  10. labour
  11. rabble

Words Related to Proletariat

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Proletariat Sentence Examples

  • The Communists aimed at a dictatorship of the proletariat, the creation of workmen's and military councils and a close handin-hand cooperation with Soviet Russia.

  • Of the agricultural proletariat two-thirds were employed by small owners and one-third by the owners of large estates.

  • Under the present system the industrial chief exploits the proletariat, the members of which, though nominally free, must accept his terms under pain of starvation.

  • He opposed commercial development on ordinary European lines on the ground that it involved the existence both of a dangerous proletariat and of a prosperous middle class equally inimical to autocracy.

  • Meanwhile, of the Reichsrath, the members of the Right and the Slav majority had left Vienna and announced a meeting of the diet at Briinn for the 10th of October; all that remained in the capital was a rump of German radicals, impotent in the hands of the proletariat and the students.

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