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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LUMPEN

From German Lump vagabond, influenced in meaning by Lumpen rag, as in lumpenproletariat.
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PRONUNCIATION OF LUMPEN

lumpen  [ˈlʌmpən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LUMPEN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lumpen is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES LUMPEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of lumpen in the English dictionary

The definition of lumpen in the dictionary is stupid or unthinking.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LUMPEN


aspen
ˈæspən
copen
ˈkəʊpən
crampon
ˈkræmpən
dampen
ˈdæmpən
deepen
ˈdiːpən
happen
ˈhæpən
hempen
ˈhɛmpən
lampern
ˈlæmpən
lippen
ˈlɪpən
open
ˈəʊpən
plumpen
ˈplʌmpən
reopen
riːˈəʊpən
Ripon
ˈrɪpən
saucepan
ˈsɔːspən
sharpen
ˈʃɑːpən
tampan
ˈtæmpən
tapen
ˈteɪpən
tarpon
ˈtɑːpən
tympan
ˈtɪmpən
weapon
ˈwɛpən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LUMPEN

lump
lump hammer
lump labour
lump sugar
lump sum
lumpectomies
lumpectomy
lumpenly
lumpenproletariat
lumper
lumpfish
lumpier
lumpiest
lumpily
lumpiness
lumpingly
lumpish
lumpishly
lumpishness
lumpkin

WORDS THAT END LIKE LUMPEN

Antwerpen
arpen
ball pen
ballpoint pen
bring into the open
bullpen
cheapen
come into the open
drawing pen
fountain pen
keep an eye open
light pen
pen
playpen
quill pen
ripen
the open
the pen
wide open
wide-open

Synonyms and antonyms of lumpen in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «lumpen» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LUMPEN

Find out the translation of lumpen to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of lumpen from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lumpen» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

流氓
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lumpen
570 millions of speakers

English

lumpen
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

lumpen
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المحرومة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

люмпен
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lumpen
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভ্রষ্ট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

lumpen
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lumpen
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

lumpen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ルンペン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

lumpen
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lumpen
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lưu manh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

லும்பன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लंपेन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

lümpen
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lumpen
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

lumpen
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

люмпен
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lumpen
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

λούμπεν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lumpen
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lump
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lumpen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lumpen

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LUMPEN»

The term «lumpen» is regularly used and occupies the 85.713 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LUMPEN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lumpen

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LUMPEN»

Discover the use of lumpen in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lumpen and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Righteous Dopefiend
In summary, we are combining and reshaping the approaches to power of Marx, Bourdieu, and Foucault in order to weave the concepts of politically structured suffering and the continuum of violence into a theory of lumpen abuse.
Philippe I. Bourgois, Jeffrey Schonberg, 2009
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Social Decay and Transformation: A View from the Left
Whatever flaws workers may have as a class in the here and now, the historical evidence allows us to conceive of a transformed politically active and conscious working class which is still a working class, while a transformed lumpen would, ...
Samuel Farber, 2000
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Changing The World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and ...
The Voice ofthe Lumpen angrily made that case: “The puppet pigs in Zweibriicken have their orders: Forget justice, teach these niggers a lesson, the way we do in Amerikkka—Lock them up—or kill them, but shut them up.“1 The fact that in ...
Belinda Davis, Wilfried Mausbach, Martin Klimke, 2013
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Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers' Band ...
282; “No More” (Lumpen), 36; “01' Man River” (Hammerstein and Kern), 267— 268; “01' Pig Nixon” (Lumpen), 264—265; “The Panther” (Elaine Brown), 299; “ People Get Ready” (Lumpen), 126—127; “People Get Ready” (Mayfield), 125; ...
Rickey Vincent, 2013
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A Dirty War in West Africa: The RUF and the Destruction of ...
corrupt and ultimately failed one-party system, what he called a 'lumpen youth culture' — a despairing anti-social movement of drug addicts, petty thieves and gamblers, growing up mostly in the slums of Freetown. People from this group ...
Lansana Gberie, 2005
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The Politics of Ethnicity and National Identity
In short, all those who simply have been locked out of the economy and robbed of their rightful social heritage.16 Cleaver argued that the very conditions of life of the lumpen dictate spontaneous and extreme reactions against the system as a ...
Santosh C. Saha, 2007
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Black Soul, White Artifact: Fanon's Clinical Psychology and ...
asides on the revolutionary role of the lumpen-proletariat read as an afterthought which within his theory are as unsubstantiated as the promise of the second revolution. Fanon's account of the lumpen-proletariat as a revolutionary force drifts in ...
Jock McCulloch, 2002
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Production Relations, Class and Black Liberation: A Marxist ...
One step down in the criminal hierarchy sits the Black lumpen petty bourgeoisie. It is squeezed in the intermediate realm between the lumpen bourgeoisie on one side and the Black lumpenproletar- iat on the other. Typically, the lumpen petty ...
Clarence J. Munford, 1978
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A Handful of Thistles: Collected Papers in Moral Conviction
Lumpen. Intellectuals. In the wake of the American occupation of Italy there appeared a new "social institution" and a new word in the Italian vocabulary: the sciu- scid — an Italianized version of the American "shoeshine boys." little uprooted.
Lewis A. Coser, 1988
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The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement
His writings on "lumpen ideology" still had profound influence. . . . Eldridge was trying to promote the "lumpen proletariat" of Marx's writing to a class unto itself, the "lumpen," and he had this theory that because of technological and scientific  ...
Eric Cummins, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LUMPEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lumpen is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cuba comes in from the cold - Times LIVE
Castro's official media denounced them as "criminals, lumpen and antisocial elements, loafers and parasites". Later, about 10000 Cubans ... «Times LIVE, Jul 15»
2
1968 Dodge Charger long-term test: a cosmetic revival | Autocar
I pulled the choke out a little, turned the key and it fired again, this time settling into a lumpen idle. The gauges' needles began to climb, with ... «Autocar, Jul 15»
3
Peter Rhodes: Pistols drawn « Express & Star
I can only report that today's Jerseyfolk are positively sylphlike compared to the lumpen Brits. Tattoos are rarer, too. That looks like a palindrome ... «expressandstar.com, Jul 15»
4
Henry's not welcome in my house | Stuff.co.nz
There's no way we would ever have that sofa. With a toddler in the house my lumpen, battered leather* one is only just surviving under the daily ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
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Self/less review – Tarsem Singh's dopey sci-fi romp | Film | The …
David and Alex Pastor's script may be lumpen, but Reynolds's failure to display the faintest trace (verbal, physical) of Kingsley's character ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
6
How is The Simpsons still on the air?
It feels baggy and lumpen, stilted with dead air; the characters and locations are recognizable, but put to use in a way that strikes me as closer ... «National Post, Jul 15»
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Cuba Gets a Needed Dose of Political Humor
HAVANA TIMES – Philologist Rolando Jacomino Páez is the person behind the alias “Siro4el”, promoter of “The Lumpen” (1), a web page of ... «Havana Times, Jul 15»
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Those Nostalgic Disney Products You Have Stashed in Your Attic …
That fact that this lumpen jewelry box is worth more than I spend on food every week is supreme proof that money can't buy you sense. «moviepilot.com, Jul 15»
9
Godzilla review
Those games focused on the monster-on-monster action to the exclusion of almost everything else, and suffered thanks to their lumpen controls ... «Eurogamer.net, Jul 15»
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'The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution'
... treated you in the same way they did in Mississippi,” said Black Panther veteran and leader of the Lumpen singing group William Calhoun. «San Francisco Bay View, Jul 15»

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