Proletariat Definition

prōlĭ-târē-ĭt
noun
The class of industrial wage earners who, possessing neither capital nor production means, must earn their living by selling their labor.
American Heritage
The class of lowest status in any society.
Webster's New World
The class of lowest status in ancient Roman society.
Webster's New World
The working class; esp., the industrial working class.
Webster's New World

The wage earners collectively, excluding salaried workers.

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Noun

Singular:
proletariat
Plural:
proletariats

Origin of Proletariat

  • From French prolétariat, from Latin proletarius (“a man whose only wealth is his offspring, or whose sole service to the state is as father"), from proles (“offspring, posterity")

    From Wiktionary

  • French prolétariat from Latin prōlētārius belonging to the lowest class of Roman citizens proletarian

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Proletariat Sentence Examples

  • The Communists aimed at a dictatorship of the proletariat, the creation of workmen's and military councils and a close handin-hand cooperation with Soviet Russia.

  • Of the agricultural proletariat two-thirds were employed by small owners and one-third by the owners of large estates.

  • Under the present system the industrial chief exploits the proletariat, the members of which, though nominally free, must accept his terms under pain of starvation.

  • He opposed commercial development on ordinary European lines on the ground that it involved the existence both of a dangerous proletariat and of a prosperous middle class equally inimical to autocracy.

  • Meanwhile, of the Reichsrath, the members of the Right and the Slav majority had left Vienna and announced a meeting of the diet at Briinn for the 10th of October; all that remained in the capital was a rump of German radicals, impotent in the hands of the proletariat and the students.

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