Proletarian

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Proletarian \Prol`e*ta"ri*an\, a. [L. proletarius. See
     Proletary.]
     Of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the
     commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar. "Every citizen, if he
     were not a proletarian animal kept at the public cost." --De
     Quincey. -- n. A proletary.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  proletarian
       adj 1: the lowest class of citizens of ancient Rome who had no
              property [syn: {propertyless}] [ant: {patrician}, {plebeian}]
       2: belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat
       n : a member of the working class (not necessarily employed);
           "workers of the world--unite!" [syn: {prole}, {worker}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "proletarian":
     Cockney, Everyman, John Smith, average man, blue-collar worker,
     bourgeois, breadwinner, casual, casual laborer, common laborer,
     common man, commoner, day laborer, employee, factory worker,
     flunky, free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, hand,
     industrial worker, jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man,
     little fellow, little man, menial, middle-class, migrant, moiler,
     navvy, office temporary, pleb, plebeian, roturier, roustabout,
     salaried worker, self-employed person, servant, stiff, temporary,
     toiler, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, worker, workgirl,
     workhand, working girl, working-class, workingman, workingwoman,
     workman