Synonyms for proletarian
ˌproʊ lɪˈtɛər i ənpro·le·tar·i·an

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1. proletarian, prole, workeradjective

   a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)

   "workers of the world--unite!"

   Synonyms:
   actor, prole, worker, doer

   Antonyms:
   upper-class, middle-class

2. proletarianadjective

   belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat

   Antonyms:
   middle-class, upper-class

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1. proletarianadjective

   Synonyms:
   [Rare.] mean, vulgar, vile, plebeian

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1. List of paraphrases for "proletarian":

   proletariat

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1. Raymond Chandler:

   It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.

2. Gustave Flaubert:

   The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

3. Mao Zedong:

   There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.