Hoi Polloi Synonyms and Antonyms

hoi pə-loi
The common people
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. commonality
  2. multitude
  3. masses
  4. mass
  5. common
  6. commonalty
  7. commoner
  8. middle america
  9. crowd
  10. commoners
  11. great-unwashed
  12. huddled masses
  13. mob
  14. infrastructure
  15. pleb
  16. plebeian
  17. plebians
  18. populace
  19. proletariat
  20. rabble
  21. public
  22. rank-and-file
  23. ruck
  24. riffraff
  25. the common people
  26. third estate
  27. the herd
  28. the many
  29. the masses
  30. the working class
  31. vulgus
  32. people
  33. the great unwashed
Antonyms:
  1. aristocracy
  2. elite

Hoi Polloi Sentence Examples

  • The emperor hosted gladiator games to appease the hoi polloi.

  • The president's advisors commented that economic issues were the most important if he wanted to win the support of the hoi polloi.

  • In ancient China, only the Emperor could wear the symbol of a dragon with five toes; four- or three-toed varieties were acceptable for the hoi polloi.

  • Leo Strauss thought hoi polloi could justifiable be kept docile by lies, and the biggest one is religion.

  • The engineers want to make three-dimensional printers available to the hoi polloi in the next decade.

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