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egalitarian.

Adjective
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MEANING

Supporting equal rights, opportunities, or social standing.

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  • egalitarian society
  • egalitarian principles

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The school was founded on egalitarian principles.

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egalitarian

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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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