roturier

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Noun
  • Fundamentally, the proletarian forfeits not so much income as individual freedom and the sovereignty of his or her class.
    Benjamin Kunkel, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
  • On the one hand, the proletarian contributes every bit of on-the-clock activity to the value of the resulting commodity.
    Benjamin Kunkel, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The ruling Liberal Democratic Party contends that opening royal status to commoners is just one step down a path that will ultimately lead to the abandonment of patrilineal legitimacy, ultimately discarding the sacred Y chromosome.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 8 June 2025
  • Isotopes in the bones of people buried there show that the city attracted people from far and wide, both commoners and elites.
    Lizzie Wade, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • So much for plebeians like myself, who tended to plants at a local nursery for minimum wage at 17.
    Chris Branch, New York Times, 29 May 2025
  • Its practical function: No one, neither courtier nor plebeian, could stand close to the queen, conspicuous in her splendid isolation.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Once known to be a peasant’s dish, according to one story, the addition of feta in the 1960s really put it on the proverbial map.
    CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 19 June 2025
  • Exacerbating the widespread unrest was the royal family’s close relationship with Grigori Rasputin, a Siberian peasant who claimed to wield control over the health of Alexei, the czar’s only son.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2025
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“Roturier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roturier. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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