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adjective
1.
pertaining or belonging to the proletariat.
2.
(in ancient Rome) belonging to the lowest or poorest class of the people.
noun
3.
a member of the proletariat.
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Example Sentences
- Blue jeans have suddenly shed their proud proletarian roots and turned into a status buy.
- Today, in the sweatshops and on the small farms of the third world, the typical proletarian is still a woman.
- The pedigrees of the two apps are vastly different, one patrician, the other proletarian.
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Word Origin & History
proletarian
1658 (n.), 1663 (adj.), from L. proletarius "citizen of the lowest class," in ancient Rome, propertyless people, exempted from taxes and military service, who served the state only by having children; from proles "offspring, progeny" (see prolific).
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