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proletariat
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of PROLETARIAT
people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class <the Bolsheviks believed that Russia's discontented proletariat made that nation ripe for revolution>
Synonyms proletariat, rabblement, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, rout, scum, tag, rag, and bobtail (or tagrag and bobtail), trash, unwashed
Related Words dregs; commoners, commons, herd, hoi polloi, masses, millions, mob, multitude, people, plebeians, populace, public, rank and file; bourgeoisie, middle class, working class
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