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rahvas — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • commonalty noun The common people; the commonality.
  • commoner noun A person who does not hold a noble title or rank.
  • pleb noun A commoner; a member of the lower class of a society.
  • rabble noun A disorderly, unruly crowd of people.
  • riffraff noun People regarded as disreputable or of low social standing, especially as a group.

Senses

rahvas is used for these senses in English:

  • commonalty A class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank; commoners.
  • commoner A member of the common people who holds no title or rank.
  • hoi polloi (collective) The common people; the masses. (Used with or without the definite article.)
  • pleb (derogatory) A common person; an unsophisticated or cultureless person.
  • rabble (derogatory) The mass of common people; the lowest class of populace. [from 1550s]
  • riffraff (informal, somewhat, derogatory) The rabble; crowds; people of a low, disreputable or undesirable class or position.
  • third estate (by extension) The commoners, collectively, in any society.

commonalty — full definition

  1. noun The common people; the commonality.
  2. noun A group of things having similar characteristics.
  3. noun A class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank; commoners.
  4. noun The state or quality of having things in common.

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