English Explanatory Dictionary

Spartist

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A left-winger, particularly a revolutionary but bourgeois one.
adj
  1. Far-left, particularly of a revolutionary but bourgeois nature.

Word forms

Spartist Spartists more Spartist most Spartist

Etymology

From Dave Spart (“stereotypical left-winger”) + -ist, itself a clipping of Spartacist (“member of the communist Spartacist League”).

Synonyms

champagne socialist
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