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Hoi polloi

noun

The common people generally. Synonyms: mass, masses, multitude, people, the great unwashed. "Power to the people"

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"Hoi polloi" Quotes from Famous Books

... be assigned the volumes contained in the average second-hand bookseller's shop in this country. They are the [Greek: hoi polloi] among books, and for the most part they include the more frequent and more modern English works. Usually they are quite desirable copies, though frequently they lack a portrait or other plate, sometimes they have a torn or mounted title-page, or other ...

— The Book-Hunter at Home • P. B. M. Allan

... the bones in place, to the mighty astonishment of the natives, who mistook the feat for an attempt to make a living animal; and when the beast was not at last saddled and bridled there were subdued chuckles of satisfaction among the "hoi polloi" at the failure of the scheme, and murmurs ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 • Elbert Hubbard

Words linked to "Hoi polloi" : the great unwashed, following, temporalty, masses, group, audience, mass, grouping, followers, laity