Synonyms for proletariat
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Proletarian — wage earners collectively; people who own no capital and depend on their labour for survival; the working…
proletarian, prole informal, proletary
2. Populace
Definitions
- n. 1
Wage earners collectively; people who own no capital and depend on their labour for survival; the working class, especially when seen as engaged in a class struggle with the bourgeoisie (“the capital-owning class”).
- n. 2
The lowest class of society; also, the lower classes of society generally; the masses.
Related words
- Word family
- prole proletaire proletairism proletarian proletarianism proletary
- Other spellings
- proletariate
Forms
- Plural
- proletariats → proletarians, proles, proletaries, populaces…
Example sentences
- proletarian America has its own Labor Day to discourage proletarian internationalism.
- populace The populace was in thrall to the dictator's whims.
- rabble Tom called the striking workers a rabble.
- labor There is a labor shortage of computer programmers.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| proletariat | falling | |
| proletarian | falling | |
| proletary | steady | |
| populace | steady | |
| rabble | rising | |
| labor | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- labor2, prole
- 6 letters
- labour2, rabble2
- 8 letters
- populace3
- 9 letters
- proletary
- 10 letters
- commonalty
- 11 letters
- proletarian5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (labor2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- prolétariat
- Italiano
- proletariato
- Deutsch
- Proletariat