| Main Entry: | working class |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common laborers |
Synonyms: |
blue-collar workers, common laborer, factory laborer, factory laborers, grass roots, laboring class, plebeians, proles, proletariat, rank and file, the other half, unskilled laborer, unskilled laborers, wage-earners, workers, workfolk, working people, working stiff, working stiffs, workpeople |
| 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: | plebeian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | base, lower-class |
Synonyms: |
banal, coarse, common, conventional, humble, ignoble, low, lowborn, lowly, mean, ordinary, pedestrian, popular, proletarian, traditional, uncultivated, unrefined, unsophisticated, unwashed, vulgar, working-class |
Antonyms: |
aristocratic, noble, rich, upper-class, wealthy |
| Main Entry: | grass roots |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ordinary people |
Synonyms: |
Middle America, common people, hoi polloi, laboring class, middle class, proletariat, rank and file, the masses, wage-earners, working class, working people |
| Main Entry: | labor force |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trained workers |
Synonyms: |
crew, factory floor, labor pool, manpower, personnel, proletariat, shop floor, workforce, working classes |
| Main Entry: | lower class |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | working people with least money |
Synonyms: |
commonalty, hoi polloi, lower orders, lower ranks, lowlife, masses, other half, plebeians, plebs, proletariat, rank and file, working class |
Antonyms: |
upper class |
| Main Entry: | middle class |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common people |
Synonyms: |
Middle America, bourgeois, bourgeoisie, burgherdom, educated class, hoi polloi, middle order, middle-income group, ordinary people, plain folks, proletariat, working class |
| Main Entry: | blue-collar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | of manual workers |
Synonyms: |
factory-working, lower-class, middle-class, proletarian, proletariat, wage-earning, working class |
Antonyms: |
white-collar |
| Main Entry: | common people |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | people in general |
Synonyms: |
folk, folks, hillbilly, hoi polloi, lower class, masses, proletariat, working class |