单词 | rabble |
释义 | rabble/ˈrab(ə)l /noun 1A disorderly crowd; a mob: he was met by a rabble of noisy, angry youths...
Synonyms mob, (disorderly) crowd, throng, gang, swarm, host, horde, pack, press, crush, jam, gathering, assemblage, multitude, mass, body, group archaic rout 1.1 (the rabble) Ordinary people, especially when regarded as socially inferior or uncouth: the British feel no compunction about ushering the gentry into the coach and packing the rabble off to debtor’s prison...
Synonyms the common people, the masses, the populace, the public, the multitude, the rank and file, the commonality, the commonalty, the third estate, the plebeians, the proletariat, the peasantry, the crowd, the hoi polloi, the lower classes, the common herd, the riff-raff, the canaille, the great unwashed, the dregs of society, the ragtag (and bobtail), the proles, the plebs 2 rare A large group of butterflies: we arrived at the grounds after following a rabble of butterflies...
OriginLate Middle English (in the senses 'string of meaningless words' and 'pack of animals'): perhaps related to dialect rabble 'to gabble'. Rhymes |
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