SOCIALIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does socialist mean? 

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

1. a political advocate of socialism

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

• SOCIALIST (adjective)
  The adjective SOCIALIST has 1 sense:

1. advocating or following the socialist principles

  Familiarity information: SOCIALIST used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOCIALIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A political advocate of socialism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

pol; political leader; politician; politico (a person active in party politics)

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

commie; communist (a socialist who advocates communism)

Fabian (a member of the Fabian Society in Britain)

internationalist (a member of a socialist or communist international)

Menshevik (a Russian member of the liberal minority group that advocated gradual reform and opposed the Bolsheviks before and during the Russian Revolution)

collectivist; left-winger; leftist (a person who belongs to the political left)

Instance hyponyms:

Castro; Fidel Castro; Fidel Castro Ruz (Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927))

Engels; Friedrich Engels (socialist who wrote the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx in 1848 (1820-1895))

Big Bill Haywood; Haywood; William Dudley Haywood (United States labor leader and militant socialist who was one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (1869-1928))

Pierre Joseph Proudhon; Proudhon (French socialist who argued that property is theft (1809-1865))

Norman Mattoon Thomas; Norman Thomas; Thomas (United States socialist who was a candidate for president six times (1884-1968))

Derivation:

socialism (a political theory advocating state ownership of industry)

socialism (an economic system based on state ownership of capital)

socialist (advocating or following the socialist principles)

• SOCIALIST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Advocating or following the socialist principles

Synonyms:

socialist; socialistic

Context example:

socialistic government

Similar:

collective (set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government)

collectivised; collectivist; collectivistic; collectivized; state-controlled (subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively)

Also:

left (of or belonging to the political or intellectual left)

Derivation:

socialist (a political advocate of socialism)

 Context examples 

"But you frequent socialist meetings," Mr. Morse challenged.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You see, I'd like to see you a socialist before I'm gone.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was the knot of wordy socialists and working-class philosophers that held forth in the City Hall Park on warm afternoons that was responsible for the great discovery.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was Sunday night, and they found the small hall packed by the Oakland socialists, chiefly members of the working class.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He was not known anywhere outside of Oakland, and in Oakland, with the few who thought they knew him, he was notorious as a red-shirt and a socialist.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Her father always contended I was a socialist, and this miserable stuff will clinch his belief.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Because I question Jefferson and the unscientific Frenchmen who informed his mind, does not make me a socialist.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"A brother socialist?" the reporter asked, with a quick glance at Brissenden that appraised the color-value of that cadaverous and dying man.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He outlined the remarks he had uttered at the socialist meeting, pointing out that they were in all ways the converse of what the newspaper had put in his mouth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was a novel experience to find himself head-lined, on the first page at that; and he was surprised to learn that he was the most notorious leader of the Oakland socialists.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)