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

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

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.

More Sentences