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Proletariat

The indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians.

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Class 76% connected

A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower clas…

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Stratum 76% connected

A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds…

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Proletarian 70% connected

Of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar.

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Worker 70% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Labor 92% connected

Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort di…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Labour 92% connected

productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

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Agriculture noun · 86% connection

The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage…

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Bourgeoisie noun · 86% connection

The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.

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Brotherhood noun · 86% connection

The state of being brothers or a brother.

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Caste noun · 86% connection

One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindoos are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism.

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Center noun · 86% connection

A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middl…

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Centre verb · 86% connection

To be placed in a center; to be central.

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Commonalty noun · 86% connection

The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons.

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Commons n. pl. · 86% connection

The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people.

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Craft noun · 86% connection

Strength; might; secret power.

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Demimonde noun · 86% connection

Persons of doubtful reputation; esp., women who are kept as mistresses, though not public prostitutes; demireps.

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Domain noun · 86% connection

Dominion; empire; authority.

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Estate noun · 86% connection

Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.

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Fraternity noun · 86% connection

The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.

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Market noun · 86% connection

A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by privat…

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Patriciate noun · 86% connection

The patrician class; the aristocracy; also, the office of patriarch.

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Peasantry noun · 86% connection

Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics.

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Social class noun · 86% connection

people having the same social, economic, or educational status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class"

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Socio-economic class noun · 86% connection

people having the same social, economic, or educational status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class"

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Appellative adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.

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Asteridea n. pl. · 78% connection

A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is…

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Bare adjective · 78% connection

Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

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Beggarly adjective · 78% connection

In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.

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Belief noun · 78% connection

Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal…

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Cestoidea n. pl. · 78% connection

A class of parasitic worms (Platelminthes) of which the tapeworms are the most common examples. The body is flattened, and usually but…

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Electorate noun · 78% connection

The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire.

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Entropy noun · 78% connection

A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remain…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: indigent, class, body, proletarians.
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Ethics noun · 78% connection

The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting d…

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First-class adjective · 78% connection

Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope.

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form noun · 78% connection

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Genus noun · 78% connection

A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly di…

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Indigence noun · 78% connection

The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence.

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