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How to pronounce proletarian in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms prole, worker
Type of common man, common person, commoner
Has types dogsbody
Type Words
Derivation proletariat

Examples of proletarian

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You would think lefties could discern a proletarian vanguard when they see one.
From the washingtonpost.com
Proletarian Sean-are you sure the Economist did actual research for this article.
From the economist.com
My hand is already calloused and misshapen from pressing the proletarian flesh.
From the time.com
The Left Communists wanted international proletarian revolution across the world.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Such proletarian computing systems are doing some impressively high-end work.
From the time.com
Love and Anarchy is not, however, a proletarian version of Day of the Jackal.
From the time.com
That was his ticket to the new aristocracy of proletarian cultural workers.
From the economist.com
First published in 1939, the book was heralded as a great piece of proletarian literature.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
The Marxist terminology of bourgeois and proletarian has an archaic ring.
From the bbc.co.uk
More examples
  • Belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat
  • A member of the working class (not necessarily employed); "workers of the world--unite!"
  • (Proletarians) Originally inhabitants of ancient Rome who owned no property at all. In modern times, term used by Marx to describe wage workers.
  • A wage earner, manual worker or peasant, whom socialists view as one without property and thus, under capitalism, at the mercy of employers. Proletarians are to be distinguished from (1) the bourgeois or merchants, employers and white-collar workers, and (2) the nobility and landed gentry.