proletarian
adjective /ˌprəʊləˈteəriən/
/ˌprəʊləˈteriən/
- connected with ordinary people who earn money by working, especially those who do not own any property
- Marx hoped that the proletarian revolution would soon follow.
- There was a growing left-wing bias of proletarian sympathies among leading artists and writers.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryProletarian is used with these nouns:- revolution
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Latin proletarius (from proles ‘offspring’), denoting a person having no wealth in property, who only served the state by producing children, + -an.