PROLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prole mean? 

• PROLE (noun)
  The noun PROLE has 1 sense:

1. a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)

  Familiarity information: PROLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the working class (not necessarily employed)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

prole; proletarian; worker

Context example:

workers of the world--unite!

Hypernyms ("prole" is a kind of...):

common man; common person; commoner (a person who holds no title)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prole"):

dogsbody (a worker who has to do all the unpleasant or boring jobs that no one else wants to do)

Holonyms ("prole" is a member of...):

labor; labour; proletariat; working class (a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages)