Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having lumps or a lumpy appearance.
- adjective Of or relating to dispossessed, often displaced people who have been cut off from the socioeconomic class with which they would ordinarily be identified.
- adjective Of or relating to the lumpenproletariat.
- adjective Vulgar or common; plebeian.
- noun The lumpenproletariat.
- noun A member of the lumpenproletariat.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[lump + –en.]
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From German Lumpenproletariat, the lowest section of the proletariat; see lumpenproletariat.]
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