чернь — meaning in English
chern
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English meaning
Senses
чернь is used for these senses in English:
- mob (archaic) The lower classes of a community; the rabble.
- plebs The common people, especially (pejorative) the mob.
- rabble A mob; a disorderly crowd. [from late 14th c.]
- 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.
- rout (countable) A group of (often violent) criminals or gangsters; such people as a class; (more generally) a disorderly and tumultuous crowd, a mob; hence (archaic, preceded by the) , the common people as a group, the rabble.
- varletry (obsolete) The rabble; the crowd; the mob.
mob — full definition
- noun A large, disorderly crowd, especially one acting in an unruly or aggressive way.
- noun Organized crime, especially the Mafia.
- noun In Australian English, a group of animals, such as kangaroos, cattle, or sheep.
- verb To crowd around someone, often aggressively.
rabble — full definition
- noun A disorderly, unruly crowd of people.
- noun A dismissive term for ordinary or common people, viewed as beneath one's notice.
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