socialist

1. 1.

   advocating or following the socialist principles

   “socialistic government”

   Synonymssocialistic

   Similarcollectivecollectivist

Other forms of socialist

plural

socialists·

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 socialist

What does socialist mean?

socialist means "a political advocate of socialism". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in socialist?

socialist has 3 syllables: so-cia-list. The stress falls on "so". In IPA it is /ˈsoʊʃələst/.

What is another word for socialist?

Close synonyms include socialistic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is socialist a common word?

socialist is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.