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单词 prole
释义

prole

noun or adjective

ˈprōl How to pronounce prole (audio)
: proletarian

Synonyms

  • baseborn
  • common
  • humble
  • ignoble
  • inferior
  • low
  • low-life
  • lowborn
  • lower-class
  • lowly
  • lumpen
  • mean
  • plebeian
  • proletarian
  • unwashed
  • vulgar
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web What benediction is possible for soot-faced proles shunned by God and man? Tadzio Koelb, New York Times, 11 May 2018 Instead, the scene is decidedly downbeat, as the proles stay downtrodden while the offspring of party elites rule the neo-capitalist market in the age of reform. Maggie Lee, chicagotribune.com, 21 Dec. 2017 The rebel manufacturers of Hoffman lenses inside the church will never for an instant consider distributing those potential instruments of prole revolution among their immediate neighbors in Justiceville. Jonathan Lethem, Slate Magazine, 9 Aug. 2017

Word History

First Known Use

1887, in the meaning defined above

prole 1 of 2

adjective

as in proletarian
belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank the writer's prole origins are evident in his gritty novels about life in the inner city

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • proletarian
  • lumpen
  • low
  • plebeian
  • lowly
  • lowborn
  • unwashed
  • humble
  • ignoble
  • inferior
  • bourgeois
  • lower-class
  • vulgar
  • baseborn
  • low-life
  • poor
  • common
  • mean
  • middle-class
  • déclassé
  • working-class
  • plain
  • simple
  • downscale
  • down-market

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • aristocratic
  • patrician
  • high
  • noble
  • genteel
  • grand
  • highborn
  • gentle
  • great
  • lofty
  • upper-class
  • upper-crust
  • wellborn
  • blue-blooded
  • highbred
  • prominent
  • eminent
  • illustrious
  • notable
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prole

2 of 2

noun

as in plebeian

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • proletarian
  • plebeian
  • pleb
  • commoner
  • everyman
  • peon
  • laborer
  • little guy
  • lug
  • little man
  • slob
  • everywoman
  • worker
  • Joe Six-Pack
  • John Doe
  • Joe Blow
  • plain Jane

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • bigwig
  • big wheel
  • fat cat
  • big cheese
  • big shot
  • VIP
  • mover and shaker
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