Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun proletariat

1 sense of proletariat

Sense 1
labor, labour, working class, proletariat -- (a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field")
       => class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class -- (people having the same social, economic, or educational status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class")