noun
1.
Synonyms: mob 2, rout
2.
the lowest class of people
the rabble of the city
Synonyms: canaille, doggery, dreg(s), hoi polloi, mass(es), mob, other half, polloi, proletariat, raff, ||ragabash, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, roughscuff, rout, scum, scurf, tag and rag, tagrag and bobtail, trash, unwashed
Related Word: bourgeoisie, commonalty, many, people, populace, public, rank and file
Idioms: the great unwashed, the scum of the earth, the submerged tenth
Contrasted words: aristocracy, aristoi, elite, Four Hundred, gentility, nobility, upper class, upper crust, upper ten, upper ten thousand