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| Main Entry: | hoi polloi |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common people |
| Synonyms: | Middle America, common people, infrastructure, masses, multitude, proletariat, rabble, rank and file, riffraff, commonality, commoners, great unwashed, huddled masses, plebians, the common people, the herd, the many, the masses, the multitude, the proletariat, the working class, vulgus |
| Main Entry: | herd |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large group |
| Synonyms: | assemblage, bevy, brood, clan, collection, covey, crowd, crush, drift, drove, flight, flock, gathering, hoi polloi*, horde, lot, mass, mob, multitude, nest, pack, people, populace, press, rabble, school, swarm, throng, gaggle |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | masses |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | public, crowd |
| Synonyms: | common people, hoi polloi*, lower class, mob, multitude, proletariat, rabble, rank and file*, riffraff*, commonalty, great unwashed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | people |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human beings |
| Synonyms: | body politic, bourgeois, clan, common people, community, crowd, family, folk, folks, herd, hoi polloi*, horde, humanity, humankind, kin, masses, mob, multitude, nation, nationality, populace, population, proletariat, public, rabble, race, rank and file*, riffraff*, society, tribe, John/Jane Q. Public, bodies, cats, citizens, commonality, general public, heads, human race, humans, inhabitants, mortals, person in the street, persons, plebeians |
| Antonyms: | animals, plants |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | proletariat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | working class |
| Synonyms: | common people, hoi polloi, lower class, peasant, rank and file, blue-collar workers, bourgeoisie, commoners, plebians, proletarian, working stiff |
| Main Entry: | rabble |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mob |
| Synonyms: | crowd, drove, flock, gang, gathering, herd, hoi polloi, horde, lower class, mass, masses, multitude, pack, proletariat, rank and file, riffraff, ring, riot, scum, throng, commonality, commoners |
| Main Entry: | riffraff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rabble |
| Synonyms: | dregs of society*, gang, gathering, hoi polloi, lower class, mob, outcast, rank and file, ring, scum, trash, vermin, commonality, commoners, one-percenters, undesirables |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grass roots |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ordinary people |
| Synonyms: | Middle America, common people, hoi polloi, middle class, proletariat, rank and file, working class, laboring class, the masses, wage-earners, working people |
| Main Entry: | lower class |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | working people with least money |
| Synonyms: | hoi polloi, masses, proletariat, rank and file, working class, commonalty, lower orders, lower ranks, lowlife, other half, plebeians, plebs |
| Antonyms: | upper class |
| Main Entry: | middle class |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common people |
| Synonyms: | Middle America, bourgeois, hoi polloi, proletariat, working class, bourgeoisie, burgherdom, educated class, middle order, middle-income group, ordinary people, plain folks |
| Main Entry: | common people |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | people in general |
| Synonyms: | folk, folks, hillbilly, hoi polloi, lower class, masses, proletariat, working class |
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