proletariat

n

laboring class, working class, commonalty, the common people, commoners, lower classes, humbler classes, rank and file, Latin, hoc genus omne; plebians, third estate, bourgeoisie; grass roots, Inf. the silent majority, the men in the street, Jocular. booboisie, Both U.S. Middle America, Main Street U.S.A.; the many, the multitude, the great unnumbered, the populace, Chiefly Brit. admass; the masses, the common people, hoi polloi, the vulgus, Archaic. the vulgar; low life, dregs, underlings, riffraff, Contemptuous. ragtag and bobtail, Inf. the great unwashed, the vulgar herd, the rabble, the mob, King Mob, the crowd