proletariat.
The lowest class of society; also, the lower classes of society generally; the masses.
Meaning & usage
The lowest class of society; also, the lower classes of society generally; the masses.
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”).
The lowest class of citizens, who had no property and few rights, and were regarded as contributing only their offspring to the state.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from French prolétariat, from prolétaire + -at, from Latin proletārius, from prōlēt- (“offspring”) + -ārius, from stem of prōlēs, from pro- + *olēs (“growth”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to grow, nourish”). By surface analysis, Latin prōlēt- + -ary + -at.
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