Crossword clues for proles
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"offspring," 1670s, from Latin proles "offspring, progeny" (see prolific).
Wiktionary
n. (plural of prole English)
Wikipedia
In Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, proles ( collective noun) refers to the working class of Oceania (i.e. the proletariat).
Oceania's society is divided into three distinct classes: Inner Party, Outer Party and proles (with their own upper, middle and lower classes). The proles constitute 85% of the population; they receive little education, work at manual labor, live in poverty (although in having privacy and anonymity, qualitatively better off than Outer Party members), and usually die by the age of sixty.
Usage examples of "proles".
Prole who was exactly the same as the seven hundred other Proles employed by the Combine.
In the last few hours I have been scrutinizing individual files, and from the ranks of these alleged Proles I can bring you enough talent to rebuild the world.
Not all proles on GAS crammed themselves into mini-apartments in high-rise buildings in the cities.
He was twenty-five years of age, looked surprisingly athletic as proles went, was medium tall, clean and neat even in less than top quality garb, and his bearing would have passed muster in any upper class gathering.
Their pay was such that they identified with the upper class, rather than the proles on GAS.
I like to eat better than you proles can afford, like to drink better, travel better.
An ultra-condo would house five thousand or more families, ranging from proles on GAS in apartments on the lower levels, to the extremely wealthy in the rarefied heights, in swank penthouses and terrace apartments.
The only proles in Green-point would be service workers commuting from other nearby towns.
The big difference between proles and slaves is that the slaves had to work to maintain the upper classes.
But now machinery does practically all of the work and proles are real drones, absolutely worthless.
And the upper class will continue to get richer and smaller, as it eliminates the lower levels of its own class, who are thrown down into the ranks of the proles if their fortunes are lost by whatever means including being pissed away.
But now the proles, caught up in the emotion of his plight, are beginning to consider his program.
Even Rome now has its seven hills surrounded by sky-high condominiums and high-rise apartment buildings for the antlike existence of the proles, the slums of the welfare state.
The proles today are largely what Marx used to call the lumpen proletariat.
The Libertarians want to reform the present Welfare State by granting more GAS for all proles, by pushing through still further rights for women and gays.