| Main Entry: | populace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | people |
Synonyms: |
commonality, commonalty, demos, masses, mob, multitude, plebeians, plebs, proletariat, public, rabble, society |
| Notes: | populace is people in general considered as a whole, the general public; populous means densely populated |
| 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: | country |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | political territory; nation |
Synonyms: |
citizenry, citizens, commonwealth, community, constituents, electors, grass roots, homeland, inhabitants, kingdom, land, native land, patria, people, polity, populace, public, realm, region, society, soil, sovereign state, state, terrain, voters |
| Notes: | country really refers to geographical characteristics while nation refers to political and social characteristics; country comes from Latin contrata (terra) 'the landscape in front of one, the landscape lying opposite to the view' and nation is from Latin nation-/natio 'race, class of person' a nation is made up of states - and a country is a nation defined geographically |
| 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: | 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 |
| Main Entry: | humankind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the human race |
Synonyms: |
Homo sapiens, community, flesh, human beings, human species, humanity, mortality, mortals, people, populace, society |
| 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: | multitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large group |
Synonyms: |
aggregation, army, assemblage, assembly, collection, commonalty, concourse, congregation, crowd, crush, drove, great number, heap, herd, horde, host, infinitude, infinity, jam*, legion, loads, lot, lots*, majority, mass, mob, much, myriad, number, numbers, ocean*, oodles*, people, plenitude, plurality, populace, proletariat, public, push*, quantity, scores, sea, slew, swarm, throng, turnout |
Antonyms: |
handful, portion, single, zero |
| Main Entry: | nation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | country with its own government |
Synonyms: |
body politic, commonwealth, community, democracy, domain, dominion, empire, land, monarchy, people, populace, population, principality, public, race, realm, republic, society, sovereignty, state, tribe, union |
| 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 |