rabble
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈræbəl/
- Offensive
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chusma
- The protesters formed a large rabble outside the government building, shouting for change.
- rabble-rouser
- rabble-rousing
Examples
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When I am declared king, that rabble will not dare go against us.
Fiction book (1991) -
More like-- we were a small rabble.
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How long has this rabble been here?
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Which would mean that the rabble would know her power.
Fiction book (1992) -
Thanks to the Japanese, we now command a rabble.
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Dastan leads a company of street rabble.
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What did Marie Antoinette scream to the rabble?
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And this treasonous rabble that follows him has no idea what a crackpot the old man is!
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There's always a rabble-rouser stirring up trouble.
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Just beyond Eastwood, at Kimberley, the bedraggled rabble encountered 22 soldiers of the Light Dragoons coming towards them.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
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1.0
Many people or things are close together in one place
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3.4
A large noisy crowd that acts in a violent or uncontrolled way
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8.2
People who are seen as rude or not honest and looked down on
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8.8
A group of ordinary people seen as not special
A mixed group of ordinary people who seem unimportant
Idioms
Compounds
How Disorderly
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rabble comes from an old French word rabele that meant a 'noisy crowd' of common people. That's why rabble now means a large, disorderly group people often look down on.