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proletariat

noun
/ˌpɹəʊ.lɪˈtɛə.ɹɪ.ət/UK/ˌpɹoʊ.lɪˈtɛɚ.i.ət/US

Etymology

Borrowed from French prolétariat, from prolétaire + -at, from Latin proletārius, from prōlēt- (“offspring”) + -ārius, from stem of prōlēs, from pro- + *olēs (“growth”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to grow, nourish”). By surface analysis, Latin prōlēt- + -ary + -at.

  1. derived from *h₂el-✻ — “to grow, nourish”
  2. derived from proletārius
  3. borrowed from prolétariat

Definitions

  1. The lowest class of society

    The lowest class of society; also, the lower classes of society generally; the masses.

  2. Wage earners collectively

    Wage earners collectively; people who own no capital and depend on their labour for survival; the working class, especially when seen as engaged in a class struggle with the bourgeoisie (“the capital-owning class”).

  3. The lowest class of citizens, who had no property and few rights, and were regarded as…

    The lowest class of citizens, who had no property and few rights, and were regarded as contributing only their offspring to the state.

The neighborhood

Derived

cognitariat, commentariat, cyberproletariat, cybertariat, dictatorship of the proletariat, militariat, neo-proletariat, precariat, prole, proprietariat, protoproletariat, semiproletariat, subproletariat, welfariat

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA