proletariat
pronunciation
How to pronounce proletariat in British English:
UK [ˌprəʊləˈteəriət]
How to pronounce proletariat in American English:
US [ˌproʊləˈteriət]
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- Noun:
- a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
Word Origin
- proletariat (n.)
- also proletariate, "the lowest class," 1853, from French prolétariat, from Latin proletarius (see proletarian). In political economics, "indigent wage-earners," from 1856. Leninist phrase dictatorship of the proletariat attested from 1918.
Antonym
Example
- 1. First comes democracy , then the dictatorship of the proletariat .
- 2. Are the ideals of a capitalist society related to the needs of the proletariat ?
- 3. The first is that , contrary to the theories of marx , engels and lenin , the revolution need not be led by the urban proletariat .
- 4. The overall message is that miners , like other elements of the proletariat , are building a new china .
- 5. The left opposition may turn out to be too weak to direct events in the interests of the proletariat at the present stage .