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| Main Entry: |
masses
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| 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: | mass |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bulk, measurement |
| Synonyms: | dimension, extent, greatness, magnitude, size, span, volume |
| Main Entry: | anybody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | one, some unspecified person or people |
| Synonyms: | a person, all, any of, any person, anyone, anyone at all, each and every one, everybody, everyone, masses, one, public, whole world |
| Main Entry: | anyone |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | one, some unspecified person |
| Synonyms: | a person, all, any of, any person, anybody, anybody at all, each and every one, everybody, everyone, masses, one, public, whole world |
| Main Entry: | everybody/everyone |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | all involved, all human beings; the whole world |
| Synonyms: | all, all and sundry, anybody, each one, each person, every person, generality, masses, people, populace, the public, the whole, young and old |
| Antonyms: | nobody/noone |
| Main Entry: | folk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's relations, acquaintances |
| Synonyms: | body politic, clan, community, confederation, culture group, ethnic group, family, general public, group, house, household, inhabitants, kin, kindred, lineage, masses, ménage, nation, nationality, people, population, proletariat, public, race, settlement, society, state, stock, tribe |
| 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: | oodles |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a lot |
| Synonyms: | abundance, billions, gobs, heaps, large number, loads, lots, many, masses, millions, piles, plenty, scads, thousands, tons, zillions |
| 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 |
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