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egalitarian

UK/ɪˌɡæl.ɪˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/US/ɪˌɡæl.ɪˈtɛɹ.i.ən/
adjectiveC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,149 of 15,258leans written

Egalitarian means holding that everybody should be equal. An egalitarian society.

It describes an attitude as much as a policy, and can be used of a manner. An egalitarian arrangement is one where rank makes no difference to how people are treated.

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Definitions of egalitarian

  1. 1adjectiveegalitarianHolding that everybody should be equal.C2

    “The office was egalitarian in every way that cost nothing.”

egalitarian is a quality.

Where it comes from

French egalitaire, from egal, equal, from Latin aequalis; the word came into English in the nineteenth century.

  1. French

    égalitaire

  2. English, today

    egalitarian

From French égalitaire + -ian.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

egalitarian in the wild

  • Christian egalitarians believe that the Bible advocates for gender equality and equal responsibilities for the family unit and the ability for women to exercise spiritual authority as clergy.

    Christian egalitarianism

  • The Sakuddei live in south-central Siberut in an egalitarian society, cut off from the outside world.

    Sakuddei

  • The institute offers various programs to support the development of Judaism that is both traditional and egalitarian.

    Hadar (educational institution)

  • Egalitarian item allocation, also called max-min item allocation is a fair item allocation problem, in which the fairness criterion follows the egalitarian rule.

    Egalitarian item allocation

  • Therefore, an egalitarian item allocation is sometimes called a leximin item allocation.

    Egalitarian item allocation

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.