lumpenproletariat

1. 1.

   (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement

   Broaderlabor

   Marxism

Other forms of lumpenproletariat

plural

lumpenproletariats·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lumpenproletariat

What does lumpenproletariat mean?

lumpenproletariat means "(Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement".

How many syllables are in lumpenproletariat?

lumpenproletariat has 7 syllables: lum-pen-pro-le-ta-ri-at. The stress falls on "ta".

Is lumpenproletariat a common word?

lumpenproletariat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.