Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Affirming, promoting, or characterized by belief in equal political, economic, social, and civil rights for all people.
Wiktionary
- adj. Characterized by social equality and equal rights for all people.
- n. A person who accepts or promotes social equality and equal rights for all people.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. favoring social equality
- n. a person who believes in the equality of all people
Etymologies
- From French égalitaire + -ian (Wiktionary)
- From French égalitaire, from égalité, equality, from Latin aequālitās, from aequālis, equal; see equal. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Only if one makes the dubious assumption of a certain egalitarian ethical outlook must a relatively high coefficient be justified.”
“They are still stuck believing in egalitarian fantasies and clean consciousness.”
“In fact, as lacking in egalitarian spirit as it may sound, the rigid reciprocity you assume is not entirely mandatory in these situations because the act is really quite enjoyable for both parties.”
“These cultures were not usually warlike (except in dire circumstances) and have been described as egalitarian because there was little hierarchy, even in terms of gender.”
“I think the real problem is that certain sectors of the Left have taken the idea of egalitarian universalism and “tolerance” so far as to invite political, cultural and economic suicide.”
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“Grim, sure, but true - not to mention ruthlessly egalitarian, which is why people rarely lob the P-word at those whose answer to life is, "Who knows?”
“Does that make the idea of egalitarian eroticism make more sense?”
“If Colonial society is egalitarian - in other words, if a person's gender doesn't narrow their choices in life - then we should be seeing something close to gender parity in that society's institutions.”
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“These two types are what Buchanan terms egalitarian networks and aristocratic networks.”
“Brian Barry, who has died at 73, had a political philosophy "best … described as egalitarian liberalism - the view that, along with protecting traditional liberal freedoms, the 'just' state must promote economic redistribution from rich to poor and provide equality of access to public services.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘egalitarian’.
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Test Prep or Just for fun
Building a list for standardized test prep or just for learning some new words! Please add any words that you feel are important for the SAT/GRE/GMAT etc...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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GRE 2014
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These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
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Neoclassicism
Words to describe Neoclassicism
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Higgledy-Piggledy
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FYS100
Word discovery & discussion by CSUMB first-year students, to help with required texts.
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Words to Know
Words that will hopefully help for the sat.
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ash vocab
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All The Words
I enjoy collecting words, for I have no fear of them ever running out.
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for egalitarian.

fbharjo this-consonant; more-(v)o(r)'wellian perhaps? moi aussi! mossy? Oct 10, 2012
yarb Isn't there a "more vowels than consonants" list somewhere? Aug 20, 2009
chained_bear ... there should be a tag for that. I never noticed. Aug 20, 2009
yarb I like it for its high syllable/letter ratio. Aug 20, 2009
sarra Have just noticed first that I like this word quite a bit more than I thought I did; second, that the reason is it's linked in form and so in feeling with words like 'elegant'. Aug 20, 2009