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Synonyms & Antonyms of proletariat
people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class
- the Bolsheviks believed that Russia's discontented proletariat made that nation ripe for revolution
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- gentlefolk
- (also gentlefolks),
- nobility,
- peerage
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The first known use of proletariat was in 1847
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