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| Main Entry: |
rabble
 [rab-uhl] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mob |
| Synonyms: | commonality, commoners, crowd, drove, flock, gang, gathering, herd, hoi polloi, horde, lower class, mass, masses, multitude, pack, proletariat, rank and file, riffraff, ring, riot, scum, throng |
| Main Entry: | dregs |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad person |
| Synonyms: | loser, outcast, rabble, riffraff, scum, trash |
| Main Entry: | herd |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large group |
| Synonyms: | assemblage, bevy, brood, clan, collection, covey, crowd, crush, drift, drove, flight, flock, gaggle, gathering, hoi polloi, horde, lot, mass, mob, multitude, nest, pack, people, populace, press, rabble, school, swarm, throng |
| Notes: | heard means detected or perceived by the sense of hearing while a herd is a group of wild animals of one species that remain together |
Example Sentences
- Heavy depredations are made upon private property to sustain an armed rabble.
- The despised rabble must be ruled by those who are more enlightened and divine.
- Confronting that rabble will only excite them even more.
| Main Entry: | hoi polloi |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common people |
| Synonyms: | Middle America, common people, commonality, commoners, great unwashed, huddled masses, infrastructure, masses, multitude, plebians, proletariat, rabble, rank and file, riffraff, the common people, the herd, the many, the masses, the multitude, the proletariat, the working class, vulgus |
| Main Entry: | masses |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | public, crowd |
| Synonyms: | common people, commonalty, great unwashed, hoi polloi, lower class, mob, multitude, proletariat, rabble, rank and file, riffraff |
| Main Entry: | mob |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large group of people |
| Synonyms: | assemblage, body, cabal, camp, canaille, cattle, circle, clan, class, clique, collection, commonality, company, coterie, crew, crowd, crush, drove, flock, gang, gathering, herd, horde, host, jam, lot, mass, masses, multitude, pack, populace, posse, press, proletariat, rabble, riffraff, ring, riot, scum, set, swarm, throng, troop |
| Main Entry: | people |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human beings |
| Synonyms: | John/Jane Q. Public, bodies, body politic, bourgeois, cats, citizens, clan, common people, commonality, community, crowd, family, folk, folks, general public, heads, herd, hoi polloi, horde, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, inhabitants, kin, masses, mob, mortals, multitude, nation, nationality, person in the street, persons, plebeians, populace, population, proletariat, public, rabble, race, rank and file, riffraff, society, tribe |
| Antonyms: | animals, plants |
| Main Entry: | scum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | people who are bad, despicable |
| Synonyms: | curs, dregs, lowest, mass, mob, proletariat, rabble, riffraff, rubbish*, scum of the earth, trash*, unwashed, vermin |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dregs of society |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | despicable people |
| Synonyms: | offscourings of society, one-percenters, rabble, riffraff, rubbish, scum of the earth, swinish multitude, trash, undesirables, vermin |
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