rabble

rab·ble ¹  (rbl)

n.

1. A tumultuous crowd; a mob.

2. The lowest or coarsest class of people. Often used with the.

3. A group of persons regarded with contempt: "After subsisting on the invisible margins of the art scene ... he was 'discovered' in the mid-80's, along with a crowd of like-minded rabble from the East Village" Richard B. Woodward.

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[Middle English.]

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rabble

Noun

1. a disorderly crowd of noisy people

2. the rabble Contemptuous the common people [origin unknown]

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Rabble a pack, string, or swarm of animals or insects; a crowd or array of disorderly people, 1513; the low or disorderly part of the populace; a disorderly collection; a confused medley.

Examples: rabble of appetites, passions and opinions, 1768; of bees; of books, 1803; of butterflies; of ceremonies, 1562; of licentious deities, 1741; of discourse, 1656; of dishes; of flies, 1847; of friars, 1560; of gnats; of insects; of monks, 1560; of murderers, 1792; of opinions, 1768; of passions, 1861; of people, 1635; of mean and light persons, 1568; of pictures, 1581; of scholastic precepts, 1589; of priests, 1529; of readers, 1691; of reasons, 1641; of remedies, 1633; of schoolmen, 1671; of strangers, 1840; of uncommanded traditions, 1545; of womenhood, 1847; of words, 1388.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	rabble - a disorderly crowd of people mob, rout crowd - a large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers" lynch mob - a mob that kills a person for some presumed offense without legal authority
	2.	rabble - disparaging terms for the common people ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff common people, folk, folks - people in general (often used in the plural); "they're just country folk"; "folks around here drink moonshine"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next" scum, trash - worthless people

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rabble

noun 1. mob, crowd, herd, swarm, horde, throng, canaille

noun 2. (Contemptuous) commoners, proletariat, common people, riffraff, crowd, masses, trash chiefly U.S., Canad. scum, lower classes, populace, peasantry, dregs, hoi polloi, the great unwashed (derogatory) canaille, lumpenproletariat, commonalty << OPPOSITE upper classes

Translations

rabble [ˈræbl] n (pej) → chusma, populacho

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rabble [ˈræbl] n (pej) → populace f

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rabble [ˈræbl] (pej) n → Pöbel m

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rabble [ˈræbl] n (pej) → canaglia, plebaglia