Noun: proletariat ,prow-lu'teh-ree-ut
- A social class comprising those who do manual labour or work for wages
"Marx believed the proletariat would eventually overthrow the bourgeoisie";
- labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], working class, proletariate [archaic]
Derived forms: proletariats
Type of: class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum
Encyclopedia: Proletariat