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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
prole

short for proletarian (n.), 1887 (G.B. Shaw); popularized by George Orwell's 1949 novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four." As an adjective from 1938. Related: Proly (adj.); prolier-than-thou.

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prole

n. 1 (context informal English) A member of the proletariat 2 (context informal English) A pleb (ordinary person).

WordNet
prole

n. a member of the working class (not necessarily employed); "workers of the world--unite!" [syn: proletarian, worker]

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Próle

Próle is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Barczewo, within Olsztyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Barczewo and north-east of the regional capital Olsztyn.

While traditionally Prussian, with the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466 the area became part of the Kingdom of Poland until 1772; 1772-1945 Kingdom of Prussia and Germany ( East Prussia).

Usage examples of "prole".

One renegade First Level citizen and four or five Service Prole hoodlums, with a stolen fifty-foot conveyer.

At first, Vail thought that Salgath Trod had been brought in disguised as a Prole prisoner, and then he saw that the prisoner was short and stocky, not at all like the slender and elegant politician.

They reported to a woman named Farilla, who ran a fortune-telling parlor in the Prole district.

Basically I am still a cipher, an alert Prole with commando training, but very little else.

All he knew of women were Prole girls who in the natural course of events were of a lamentably low order of intelligence even for Proles.

These, with the approval and supervision of the Combine authorities, made themselves available to the Prole males for a small monetary return.

All three were dressed neatly, though their clothing was only a thin cut better than prole level.

It was a conservative suit, government issue, just slightly above usual prole standards.

He was a small man, better dressed than the prole audience, and he had a notepad on his lap.

Hamp doubted that a single prole family was in residence, not even in the lowest levels.

Not only was he black, but his clothes, though a bit above the usual prole level, were hardly of the quality most often seen in Greenpoint.

Probably still made from malt and hops, he assumed, instead of the crap being turned out at home these days for the prole palate.

The prole was big and square and on the rugged side, the other was trimmer.

Billy dipped his hand into the side pocket of his prole denim jacket reluctantly and came out with a Gyrojet pistol.

Planned obsolescence has disappeared, so far as the prole is concerned.