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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common people |
| Synonyms: | common, commonalty, commoner, hoi polloi, pleb, plebeian, populace, public, the masses, third estate |
| Main Entry: | commune |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group living together |
| Synonyms: | collective, commonage, commonality, community, cooperative, family, kibbutz, municipality, neighborhood, rank and file, village |
| Main Entry: | community |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | society, area of people |
| Synonyms: | association, body politic, center, colony, commonality, commonwealth, company, district, general public, hamlet, locality, nation, neck of the woods, neighborhood, people, populace, public, residents, society, state, stomping ground, territory, turf |
| 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: | 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 |
| Notes: | people is a term equivalent to cows and horses - like a herd of humans; persons is used in regard to our external aspects and refers to a number of individuals |
| Antonyms: | animals, plants |
| Main Entry: | rabble |
| 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: | riffraff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rabble |
| Synonyms: | commonality, commoners, dregs of society, gang, gathering, hoi polloi, lower class, mob, one-percenters, outcast, rank and file, ring, scum, trash, undesirables, vermin |
| Main Entry: | society |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humankind, people |
| Synonyms: | association, camaraderie, civilization, commonality, commonwealth, community, companionship, company, comradeship, culture, friendship, general public, humanity, jungle*, nation, population, public, rat race, social order, world, zoo |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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