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Prole

/pɹoʊl/

A member of the proletariat; a proletarian

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noun
  1. 1

    A member of the proletariat; a proletarian

  2. 2

    A pleb (ordinary person).

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proletariannounA member of the proletariat.
workernounOne who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.

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proletariannounA member of the proletariat.
workernounOne who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.
proletarynounA proletarian.
proletarianismnoun(uncountable) The political character and practice of the proletariat; advocacy or advancement of the proletariat’s interests.
proletariatenounAlternative spelling of proletariat. [(often derogatory, also figuratively) The lowest class of society; also, the lower classes of society generally; the masses.]
proletariatnoun(Marxism) 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”).
lumpenproletariannoun(Marxism) A member of the lumpenproletariat.
lumpenprolenounA member of the lumpenproletariat.
plebnounA commoner; a member of the lower class of a society.
plebeianOf or concerning the common people.
lumpennounA member of the lumpenproletariat.
bourgeoisnoun(usually derogatory) A person of any class with bourgeois (i.e., overly conventional and materialistic) values and attitudes.
peasantnounA member of the lowly social class that toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture.
protestardnoun(slang, derogatory) A protester.
prossnoun(slang) A prostitute.
lumpenproletariatnounA social underclass; the riffraff.
peonnounA lowly person; a peasant or serf; a labourer who is obliged to do menial work.
roturiernounA commoner or plebeian; a person of low rank; especially, in pre-Revolutionary France, a member of the social class comprising all who were not nobles or clergy.
ruptuarynoun(obsolete, rare) One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier.
plebsnounThe common people, especially (derogatory) the mob.

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