Dictionary

Communist en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to a formally constituted Communist Party.
2. (alt-of, not-comparable, proscribed, qualifier:inexact, sometimes) Alternative letter-case form of communist, of or related to the general philosophy of communism.
   alt of communist
   alt of of or related to the general philosophy of communism
3. (alt-of, not-comparable, proscribed, qualifier:inexact, sometimes) Alternative letter-case form of communistic, embodying the ideals of communism.
   alt of communistic
   alt of embodying the ideals of communism

Forms

Communist en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A member of a formally constituted Communist Party.
   • ...all through the between-war years no Socialist programme that was both revolutionary and workable ever appeared; basically, no doubt, because no one genuinely wanted any major change to happen... The Communists wanted to go on and on, suffering a comfortable martyrdom, meeting with endless defeats and afterwards putting the blame on other people. 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. III:
2. A proponent of the kind of communism formally espoused by such a party, typically either Marxism, or more commonly, Leninism or Maoism.
3. (qualifier:inexact) Any member of an organization, especially a military force, controlled and led by a formally constituted Communist Party, even if most individual members of the organization are not party members.
   • For example, what will happen if a landing is achieved and the Communists are advancing with some success? 1951, Memorandum on the Substance of Discussions at a Department of State–Joint Chiefs of Staff Meeting, January 30, 1951:
4. (alt-of, proscribed, qualifier:inexact, sometimes) Alternative letter-case form of communist, a proponent of the general philosophy of communism.
   alt of communist

Forms

Deriveds

comsymp

Synonyms

Titoist (philosophical proponent) · Stalinite (philosophical proponent) · cadre (party member) · apparatchik (party member) · party member (party member) · Maoist (philosophical proponent) · Chicom (party member) · Red (philosophical proponent) · Stalinist (philosophical proponent) · Red Chinese (citizen of a communist country) · Bolshevik (philosophical proponent) · Soviet (citizen of a communist country) · Red (citizen of a communist country) · Sankarist (philosophical proponent) · Marxist (philosophical proponent) · Red (party member) · Chicom (philosophical proponent) · Chicom (citizen of a communist country) · Marxist-Leninist (philosophical proponent) · Hoxhaist (philosophical proponent) · Leninist (philosophical proponent)