proletarian
proh luh te ree uhn
- n a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)
- s belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat
- Built in 1924, its resplendent marble halls and expansive lawns were put to more proletarian use after the communists reopened it in 1953 as a children's recreation center.
- During his 30-year reign as China's Chairman and national hero, Mao regularly appeared in a proletarian four-pocket jacket first introduced by Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen as .
- Sotomayor may be a child of the barrio, culturally speaking, but the judicial philosophy she represents comes from the mandarin, not the proletarian, wing of the Democratic Party.