чернь — meaning in English

English meaning

• mob noun A large, disorderly crowd, especially one acting in an unruly or aggressive way.
• rabble noun A disorderly, unruly crowd of people.
• riffraff noun People regarded as disreputable or of low social standing, especially as a group.
• rout noun A crushing, disorganized defeat.

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

1. noun A large, disorderly crowd, especially one acting in an unruly or aggressive way.
2. noun Organized crime, especially the Mafia.
3. noun In Australian English, a group of animals, such as kangaroos, cattle, or sheep.
4. verb To crowd around someone, often aggressively.

rabble — full definition

1. noun A disorderly, unruly crowd of people.
2. noun A dismissive term for ordinary or common people, viewed as beneath one's notice.

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