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Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.
Clara Zetkin

Meaning of "proletarian" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PROLETARIAN

From Latin prōlētārius one whose only contribution to the state was his offspring, from prōlēs offspring.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PROLETARIAN

proletarian  [ˌprəʊlɪˈtɛərɪən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROLETARIAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Proletarian can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PROLETARIAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

proletarian

Proletariat

The proletariat is a term used to describe the class of wage-earners in a capitalist society whose only possession of significant material value is their labour-power; a member of such a class is a proletarian.

Definition of proletarian in the English dictionary

The definition of proletarian in the dictionary is of, relating, or belonging to the proletariat. Other definition of proletarian is a member of the proletariat.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROLETARIAN


authoritarian
ɔːˌθɒrɪˈtɛərɪən
communitarian
kəˌmjuːnɪˈtɛərɪən
documentarian
ˌdɒkjʊmənˈtɛərɪən
egalitarian
ɪˌɡælɪˈtɛərɪən
flexitarian
ˌflɛksɪˈtɛərɪən
fruitarian
fruːˈtɛərɪən
humanitarian
hjuːˌmænɪˈtɛərɪən
libertarian
ˌlɪbəˈtɛərɪən
nonsectarian
ˌnɒnsɛkˈtɛərɪən
Ontarian
ɒnˈtɛərɪən
parliamentarian
ˌpɑːləmɛnˈtɛərɪən
pescetarian
ˈpɛskəˌtɛərɪən
sanitarian
ˌsænɪˈtɛərɪən
sectarian
sɛkˈtɛərɪən
Tartarian
tɑːˈtɛərɪən
totalitarian
təʊˌtælɪˈtɛərɪən
Trinitarian
ˌtrɪnɪˈtɛərɪən
unitarian
ˌjuːnɪˈtɛərɪən
utilitarian
juːˌtɪlɪˈtɛərɪən
vegetarian
ˌvɛdʒɪˈtɛərɪən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROLETARIAN

proleg
prolegomena
prolegomenal
prolegomenary
prolegomenon
prolegomenous
prolepses
prolepsis
proleptic
proleptical
proleptically
proler
proletarianise
proletarianism
proletarianize
proletarianness
proletariat
proletariate
proletaries
proletary

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROLETARIAN

agrarian
antiquarian
aquarian
assistant librarian
barbarian
Bavarian
Brian
Bulgarian
centenarian
contrarian
culinarian
Hungarian
librarian
Maid Marian
Marian
Old Bulgarian
ovarian
quinquagenarian
riparian
school librarian
veterinarian

Synonyms and antonyms of proletarian in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PROLETARIAN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «proletarian» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of proletarian

Translation of «proletarian» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROLETARIAN

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

Translator English - Chinese

无产阶级
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

proletaria
570 millions of speakers

English

proletarian
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सर्वहारा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

البروليتارية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пролетарская
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

proletária
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিত্তহীন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

prolétarien
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Proletariat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Proletarier
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

プロレタリアの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

프롤레타리아
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Proletar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuộc về dân lao động
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாட்டாளி வர்க்க
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सर्वहाराष्टक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

proleter
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

proletario
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

proletariacka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Пролетарська
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

proletar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προλεταριακής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

proletariese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

proletär
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

proletarisk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of proletarian

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROLETARIAN»

The term «proletarian» is regularly used and occupies the 100.474 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROLETARIAN» OVER TIME

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

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10 QUOTES WITH «PROLETARIAN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word proletarian.
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Walter Duranty
Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.
2
Gustave Flaubert
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Fred Hampton
I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.
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Adam Richman
These $40 burgers with foie gras and truffles and all of that flies in the face of one of the most proletarian foods around. It's overpriced, overdone and just not worth it.
5
Oswald Spengler
There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
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Clara Zetkin
The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
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Clara Zetkin
Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle.
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Clara Zetkin
What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.
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Clara Zetkin
We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.
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Clara Zetkin
Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROLETARIAN»

Discover the use of proletarian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to proletarian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Master ...
Treating China's Cultural Revolution as much more than a political event, this innovative volume explores its ideological dimensions.
Woei Lien Chong, 2002
2
Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural ...
Chinese Posters collects more than 150 of the most striking of these posters and offers background on their social and political context and production.
Lincoln Cushing, Ann Tompkins, 2007
3
The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan
In The Proletarian Gamble, Ken C. Kawashima maintains that contingent labor is a defining characteristic of capitalist commodity economies.
Ken C. Kawashima, 2009
4
Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in ...
Drawing on vast research, Steinberg demonstrates the texts' significance for an understanding of Russian popular mentalities, indeed for the very meaning, philosophically and morally, of these years of crisis and possibility at the end of ...
Mark D. Steinberg, 2002
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Radical Representations: Politics and Form in U.S. ...
I cannot imagine anyone interested in politics and literature not taking this book as required reading. It will also be of great interest to American Studies, Cultural Studies and historians and sociologists of culture.
Barbara Foley, 1993
6
A Flock Of Swirling Crows And Other Proletarian Writings
The present volume comprises much of Kuroshima's most highly acclaimed work for the first time in English.
Denji Kuroshima, 2005
7
The Proletarian Moment: The Controversy Over Leftism in ...
In addition to discussing the early political history of the 'New York intellectuals, ' Murphy sheds new light on the international nature of the debate on proletarian literature, which engaged leftists in Germany and the Soviet Union as ...
James Francis Murphy, 1991
8
Staging the People: The Proletarian and His Double
These essays from the 1970s mark the inception of the distinctive project that Jacques Rancière has pursued across forty years, with four interwoven themes: the study of working-class identity, of its philosophical interpretation, of ...
Jacques Ranciere, 2011
9
Proletarian power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution
"A meticulous reconstruction of the Cultural Revolution in Shanghai.
Elizabeth J. Perry, Xun Li, 1997
10
Zones of Proletarian Development
The author attempts to theorize the anti-capitalist movement from a neo-Vygotskian perspective, using Marx, Vygotsky, Bakhtin, and Activity Theory.
Mastaneh Shah-Shuja, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROLETARIAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term proletarian is used in the context of the following news items.
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Have reports of the death of capitalism been greatly exaggerated?
The 20th century old/new leftist dream of some crisis-sparked proletarian revolt, he argues, has been battered by neo-liberalism and, now, ... «Open Democracy, Jul 15»
2
The Truth About Western 'Colonialism'
In 1917, Vladimir Lenin, faced with the failure of classical Marxism's historical predictions of the proletarian revolution, in 1917 built on Hobson's ... «FrontPage Magazine, Jul 15»
3
Pabebe's resistance, Empire's strategy
To propose that the pabebe girl disposition is a form of resistance or to valorize the same as a feature of proletarian culture is to fall into the ... «Bulatlat, Jul 15»
4
Let a 100 stocks bloom and shares leap forward
For too long have proletarian stock buyers been ground beneath the heels of an oppressive stock selling bourgeoisie, aided and abetted by ... «The Navhind Times, Jul 15»
5
"Green Grow the Lilacs": Summer of the "Okies"
The Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1931 production was produced on Broadway by the Theatre Guild, which was part of the proletarian theater ... «People's World, Jul 15»
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Miroslav Slaboshpitsky's The Tribe pummels viewers with silence
Still, after a year, 300-plus auditions, and a sufficient amount of trust-building, filming finally commenced in a bleak “proletarian district” known ... «Straight.com, Jul 15»
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How far did the UK aristocracy's love of the Nazis really go?
Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists had members from all classes, including proletarian racists from the East End of London. «Jewish Chronicle, Jul 15»
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Can transhumanism avoid becoming the Marxism of the 21st century?
Karl Marx notoriously predicted that the proletarian revolution would occur in Germany because its rapid industrialisation made it the most ... «Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Jul 15»
9
Motorbike taxi drivers aim to be Kenya's next entrepreneurs
But manufacturing and the proletarian aspirations of motorbike taxi drivers are as important if Kenya is to grasp its potential. Kenya's motorbike ... «GlobalPost, Jul 15»
10
The lessons of Greece
But others have probably argued that Tsipras and his followers, strengthened by their “victory” election, were best able to get the proletarian ... «Bay Area Indymedia, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Proletarian [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/proletarian>. Apr 2024 ».
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