rabble
Disorderly common folk
Rabble is a disorderly crowd, especially one viewed with contempt by the speaker.
The guards dispersed the rabble outside the gates.
The term often carries class disdain—the rabble suggests common people seen as unruly or beneath consideration.
A rabble-rouser stirs up such crowds, inciting agitation or unrest.
Rural working class
- plebeiansRoman lower classes
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
- massesBulk or populace
- populaceInhabitants of a place
commonalty · rank-and-file · grassroots · underclass · working-class · riffraff · dregs · unwashed
Disreputable or undesirable people
- scumSurface residue or lowlifes
- dregsResidue at bottom
- lowlifesDisreputable, immoral people
- undesirablesUnwanted or objectionable persons
trash · vermin · scoundrels · hooligans · roughnecks · hoodlums · thugs · ruffians
peasantry
Rural working class
- plebeiansRoman lower classes
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
- massesBulk or populace
populace · commonalty · rank-and-file · grassroots · underclass · working-class · riffraff · dregs · unwashed · serfs
riffraff
Disreputable or undesirable people
undesirables · trash · vermin · scoundrels · hooligans · roughnecks · hoodlums · thugs · ruffians · ne'er-do-wells
mob
Disorderly, aggressive crowd
multitude · swarm · pack · gang · herd · flock · assembly · gathering · crush · press
riot
Violent public disturbance
chaos · pandemonium · bedlam · mayhem · turmoil · fracas · melee · disturbance · unrest · upheaval
- crowdscrowd, horde, mob, throng, multitude
- class labelsaristocrat, beggar, bourgeois, commoner, elite
- commonerscommoner, commoners, peasant, peasants, common people
- massmass, masses, bulk, body mass, atomic mass
- class revoltrevolutionary, revolt, uprising, rebel, insurgent
- underclasspoor, pauper, peasant, homeless, serf
rabblearistocracy
Rule by hereditary elite
nobility · elite · gentry · patricians · peerage
rabbleregiment
Colonel-led military unit
corps · formation · ranks · delegation · procession
rabbleelect
Choose by vote
dignitaries · pillars of society · worthies · luminaries · notables
- rabble rousersThose who inflame public sentiment
- rabble rousingInciting group unrest
rabble-rouser, rabble-rousing, rabbles, rabble-rousers, rabble-rouse