MEANING
Supporting equal rights, opportunities, or social standing.
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Words that belong together
- egalitarian society
- egalitarian principles
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The school was founded on egalitarian principles.
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- Base
- egalitarian
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Comparative more egalitarian; superlative most egalitarian when comparison is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation. Commonness: moderately common.
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