LEXFALL.

Words / P / General

proletariat

noun/ˌprəʊlɪˈtɛːrɪət/

B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

The class of wage-earning workers who own no means of production and live by selling their labour.

The pamphlet urged the proletariat to recognise its collective strength against the owners of capital.

Similar: working class, labour, masses

Origin: From Latin 'proletarius', a citizen of the lowest class who served the state only by producing offspring ('proles').

Topic: class in General English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

Get words like proletariat on your lock screen, a few a day, with review that makes them stick.

Download on the App Store Lexfall puts a new word on your home and lock screen through widgets, so you learn without opening an app. Free to download. After a free trial, a subscription unlocks every field. Built for iPhone, iOS 15.1 or later.
QR code that opens Lexfall on the App Store
On a computer?Scan with your iPhone camera.

More general words: class