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socialist

socialist

155 4.2
A person who wants community ownership of businesses and public services
  • noun
  • /ˈsoʊʃəlɪst/
translation icon : socialista
  • Most political parties, liberal as well as socialist, fit into this category.
  • fellow socialists
  • communists and socialists
  • liberals and socialists

It was the war that would seal his split with the Socialists.

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Examples

  • So the first question, how did this fiery feminist and socialist cope in the House of Commons?

  • In France, the socialist pushed all that stuff through.

  • I was accused of being a socialist.

  • I'm not a worthy socialist.

  • I'm a socialist.

  • One was Horace Mayer Kallen, an active socialist and student of William James.

    Academic text (1992)
  • What Bernie stands for and Warren and all those socialists stand for is they're against the rich.

  • My fellow students included libertarians, socialists, social democrats, liberals, conservatives, and a number who were hard to place.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The socialist argued passionately for a more equitable distribution of resources in the community.

  • During the debate, the socialist emphasized the importance of public ownership for the benefit of all citizens.

Antonyms

118 4.6

A person who supports private business and free markets

A person who prefers to think and act independently

Compounds

9 3.4

A political party in the United States that supports government ownership of businesses and greater economic equality

national socialist
  • Offensive
4 9.3

A political movement in Germany under Hitler that combines strong national pride with harmful racist ideas

One of the states that made up the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1991

A system where the state or community owns major businesses and resources instead of private owners

A political party in Germany led by Adolf Hitler that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945

8.8

A person who supports equality but lives a rich life

The official name of the country Sri Lanka

A Palestinian armed group that split from the PLO in 1974 and carried out attacks abroad

The largest republic of the former Soviet Union, covering much of eastern Europe and northern Asia from 1917 to 1991

A large republic of the former Soviet Union covering much of eastern Europe and northern Asia, now Russia

A political party in the United States that wants workers to own businesses peacefully

The official name of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi from 1977 to 2011

Official name of Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia

Socialist realism
  • Specialized
8.7

An official art style in socialist countries that shows workers and everyday life in a positive way

A former large country in eastern Europe and northern Asia with a communist government

How Socialist

revolutionary
48 5.8
socialist
155 4.2
activist
6 3.7
supporter
817 1.0
sympathizer
37 4.8

Surface Forms

socialist singular
socialists plural

Morphology

socialist = social (transparent) = social + ist

Formed by the adjective 'social' plus the productive suffix '-ist' to denote a person associated with or an adherent of an ideology; the morphological relation is clear though full interpretation requires knowledge of the political ideology 'socialism'.

Etymology

Socialist comes from social, a word about 'society' or 'people living together', and the ending -ist meaning 'a person who'. So a socialist is someone who believes important things should be owned or shared by the community, which explains the modern political meaning.