Associations to the word «Proletariat»

Wiktionary

PROLETARIAT, noun. The working class or lower class.
PROLETARIAT, noun. The wage earners collectively, excluding salaried workers.
PROLETARIAT, noun. (history) In ancient Rome, the lowest class of citizens, who had no property.

Dictionary definition

PROLETARIAT, noun. A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin