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RABBLE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disorderly crowd of people

Synonyms:

mob; rabble; rout

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("rabble" is a kind of...):

crowd (a large number of things or people considered together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rabble"):

lynch mob (a mob that kills a person for some presumed offense without legal authority)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Disparaging terms for the common people

Synonyms:

rabble; ragtag; ragtag and bobtail; riffraff

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("rabble" is a kind of...):

common people; folk; folks (people in general (often used in the plural))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rabble"):

scum; trash (worthless people)

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