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English

Adjective

egalitarian (comparative more egalitarian, superlative most egalitarian)

  • Characterized by social equality and equal rights for all people.
    • ✤ Ladies of yesteryear toured world capitals in sedate linen dresses, but such priggish frumpery hardly presents Americans as the carefree, egalitarian, and sensuous people the viewers of dubbed Baywatch episodes have come to expect.1

Noun

egalitarian (plural egalitarians)

  • A person who accepts or promotes social equality and equal rights for all people.
    • ✤ The Greeks have been variously represented: as aristocrats or democrats, as unravished brides of quietness or sexual misfits in need of a therapist’s couch, as narcissists or altruists, as protoracists or open-minded egalitarians.2

Etymology

From French égalitaire + -ian.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA: /ɪˌɡæl.ɪˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/
  • (US) IPA: /ɪˌɡæl.ɪˈtɛɹ.i.ən/
  • Audio (US): 🔊
  • Audio (Australia): 🔊

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Footnotes

  1. 2005, Sharon Grehan, Random Acts of Malice, page 56: ↩

  2. 2002, Barry Strauss, Fathers and Sons in Athens: Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War, →ISBN: ↩